Ivy Rehab for Kids (Suffolk VA)

Contact Information

📞 Phone 757-774-5600
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📍 Address

1001 Centerbrooke Ln, Suite 103 , Suffolk , VA  234434 · 🗺️ Get Directions

Specialists

Occupational Therapist Speech Language Pathologist

Diagnoses

Autism Avoident/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) Cerebral Palsy Cleft Lip and/or Palate Developmental Delay Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) Failure to Thrive Genetic/Chromosomal Neurological Condition Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD) Prematurity Sensory Processing Disorder Severe Food Allergies Structural/Cranio-Facial Abnormality Swallowing Disorder/Dysphagia Swallowing/Dysphagia

Services

Infant Feeding Therapy Outpatient: Once a week or less (overnight stay not required) Virtual/Telehealth

About

Ivy Rehab for Kids is a multi-disciplinary private practice serving the Hampton Roads area. Ivy Rehab for Kids provides physical, occupational and speech therapy services to meet the habilitation and rehabilitation needs of patients, their physicians and parents. We work with children from birth to 21 years of age providing timely, individualized therapy services in a caring environment through the personalized attention of committed staff. Ivy Rehab for Kids is referral-based, so before being seen by a therapist, children will need a referral from their primary care physician.

This location offers 4 feeding specialists: 3 speech therapists and 1 occupational therapist who are well-versed in a variety of pediatric feeding disorders.

Marissa Anderson, MOT, OTR/L is trained in the Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding as well as other topics related to feeding, including tethered oral tissues (TOTs), anxiety-related feeding disorder (ARFID), and pediatric feeding disorder (PFD). She has pursued additional education in sensory regulation and executive function skills and felt safety and how they impact children’s abilities to engage in everyday tasks, including feeding.

Meghan Holtoff Cyplik, MS CCC-SLP is trained in the Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) approach, tethered oral tissues (TOTs), and pediatric feeding disorders (PFD). Meghan also has experience with food chaining, which is a technique used to help children learn to experience new foods by linking novel foods to their preferred foods.

Emily Clifford Foster, MS CCC-SLP is trained in tethered oral tissues (TOTs), pediatric feeding disorders (PFD), and is working to obtain her Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) license, having focused her feeding specialty on the 0-2 population.

Risha Stafford, MA CCC-SLP has pursued additional education in pediatric feeding disorders (PFD) including the Beckman Protocol to address the oral motor aspects of feeding, as well as continuing education focusing on food chaining.