Nina is a pediatric feeding expert helping babies, young children, and their families learn to love food, enjoy mealtimes, and thrive. She works in private practice in Baltimore, Maryland USA. She developed AEIOU: An Integrated Approach to Pediatric Feeding, a comprehensive professional training program that she continues to teach nationally and internationally. Nina has more than 26 years of experience as a speech-language pathologist specializing in infants with sucking dysfunction and children with mild to medically complex issues, autism spectrum disorders, and other developmental disabilities. She recently retired from an acclaimed children's hospital where she founded and was the lead therapist of the TOTs program (for infants with feeding issues related to tethered oral-tissue, torticollis, plagiocephaly and/or related issues of body alignment and tension). Nina holds a Master of Science in Speech-Language Patholgoy from Loyola College of Maryland and a Master of Arts in Applied Healing Arts from Tai Sophia Institute (now Maryland University of Integrative Health). She is a board certified holistic health practitioner and a certified educator of infant massage.
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