• Children who have feeding difficulties, or exhibit selective eating or have limited diets which are unbalanced and problematic.
• Children and adults who are diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy (CP), Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down’s Syndrome, Spina Bifida and Muscular Dystrophy
• Anyone who experiences a range of nutritional difficulties including under- and over nutrition, eating, drinking and swallowing disorders, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, overweight and obesity, among others.
• Those who have hormonal imbalances
• Functional gastrointestinal difficulties such as constipation, diarrhoea, reflux
• Children or adults who are peg or tube fed
• Pregnancy nutrition in managing weight gain, or gestational diabetes
• In the introduction of solids to babies
• Those who have allergies or food intolerances
• Diagnoses which impact on the digestive system such as Celiac’s Disease, inflammatory bowel disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Assist with specialised diets such as the auto-immune protocol (AIP), ketogenic diet, vegan or vegetarian diet or the ReNew and Mito diet
• Assist with cardiometabolic health: pre-diabetes and type 1 & 2 diabetes in both children and adults
• Sports nutrition: novice and intermediary skilled sports nutrition.
• Anti-inflammatory diets for rheumatological (musculo-skeletal) condition such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, gout, scleroderma and fibromyalgia.
• Nutrition in Liver and kidney diseases

Your dietitian should be able to help you make sound decisions on best practices to feed your child.

Close communication with the multidisciplinary team is essential for effective management of nutritional problems amongst this group. As problems are multi-faceted and have knock-on effects on other therapies. For this reason, you may find that your therapist will recommend referral to a dietitian with a special interest in a particular field.