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Dr. Kay Toomey is a Pediatric Psychologist who has worked with children who don’t eat for over 35 years. She has developed the SOS Approach to Feeding as a family centered program for assessing and treating children with feeding problems. Dr. Toomey speaks nationally and internationally about her approach. Dr. Toomey helped to form The Children’s Hospital – Denver’s Pediatric Oral Feeding Clinic, as well as the Rose Medical Center’s Pediatric Feeding Center. Dr. Toomey co-chaired the Pediatric Therapy Services Department at Rose Medical Center prior to entering private practice. Dr. Toomey acted as the Clinical Director for Toomey & Associates, Inc.’s Feeding Clinic, and then the SOS Feeding Solutions @ STAR before shifting into clinical consultation in order to focus on her teaching. Dr. Toomey is currently the President of Toomey & Associates, Inc.
Lindsay Beckerman, MOT, OTR/L received her Master of Occupational Therapy degree from Ohio State University. She currently works at Developmental FX, a non-profit clinic supporting children with a wide variety of developmental needs. Prior to this, she worked as a Pediatric Feeding Specialist at SOS Feeding Solutions @ STAR with Dr. Kay Toomey and Dr. Lucy Jane Miller and currently continues to work with Dr. Toomey as an SOS Professor. Lindsay worked as a member of several multidisciplinary teams specializing in supporting individuals with Autism, Sensory Integration and Processing differences, emotional/behavioral disorders, and feeding problems. She has completed an Intensive Mentorship Program in Sensory Integration and Processing and has completed the Polyvagal Certificate Course. Lindsay is also a certified DIR Floortime Provider. Lindsay’s passion is supporting children, teens, adults, and their families experience greater felt safety during meals through the use of individualized intervention strategies and changing the food to make it work better.Â
Kelly Fitzpatrick, MA, CCC-SLP, CLC received her Master of Arts in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Memphis. She currently works in the Early Intervention setting, specializing in working with children birth to three years of age, as well as children with medical complexities and those who are tube dependent. Her clinical work focuses on building safe, trusting feeding relationships while supporting skill development, medical considerations, and family-centered goals. In the past, Kelly served as the Assistant Clinical Director of SOS Feeding Solutions @ STAR, working closely with Dr. Kay Toomey and Dr. Lucy Jane Miller. After this, she established a Feeding Clinic within four Pediatric Gastroenterology practices. Kelly completed the STAR Institute’s Intensive Mentorship Program and is both a Certified Lactation Counselor and a certified DIR/Floortime Provider. She is passionate about collaborating with families and interdisciplinary teams to support children in becoming confident, safe, and joyful eaters.
Amanda Foster, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC received her master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Massachusetts General Hospital IHP. With over 20 years, Mrs. Foster has worked with children with various diagnoses across school, clinic, hospital, and early intervention settings. She began her feeding career in 2005 at Toomey & Associates, Inc., later transitioning to the SOS Feeding Solutions @ STAR with Dr. Kay Toomey and Dr. Lucy Jane Miller. In 2010, Mrs. Foster started a private practice specializing in providing feeding support for families in their homes and in community environments. Currently, she works as a consultant to local and statewide feeding therapists and clinics in Oklahoma, providing guidance on pediatric feeding, caseload management, clinic development and training. In addition to consulting, she presents at college-level courses, parent and professional seminars, as well as presenting with the SOS Approach to Feeding.
Susan Kniffen, MS, OTR/L received her master’s degree in Occupational Therapy at Shenandoah University (VA). She spent the first two years of her career working with adults in acute care and rehabilitation settings before transferring to working in pediatric settings in 2005. Since 2006, she has been a feeding specialist in addition to working with children who have orthopedic, neurological, and complex medical needs. She is currently an occupational therapist and feeding specialist in the early intervention program for The Resource Exchange in Colorado Springs, CO. Previously she provided pediatric outpatient feeding and rehabilitation services through Memorial Hospital, Toomey & Associates Inc., and Children’s Hospital Colorado. Partnering with families to educate and empower them to be observers and experts of their children is her passion.
Deborah Lagerborg, MS, CCC-SLP received her master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. During her graduate studies, she focused on feeding disorders and dysphagia in infants and children. Deborah currently works as a Pediatric Feeding Specialist and Speech Pathologist for Talking Together, Inc. Prior to this position, Deborah worked as a Pediatric Feeding Specialist at SOS Feeding Solutions @STAR with Dr. Kay Toomey and Dr. Lucy Jane Miller. Deborah has also worked in a pediatric outpatient hospital setting, working primarily with infants and children with feeding disorders. She also spent time working in the NICU as part of a multidisciplinary team, supporting premature infant development and early feeding experiences. Deborah’s passion is to work with the families, empowering parents to support their own child’s development and success.
Erin Sundseth Ross, PhD, CCC-SLP received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 2007, followed by a 2-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Section of Nutrition at the University of Colorado Denver. Her master’s degree is in Speech and Language Pathology, from California State University Stanislaus, which she received in 1988. Dr. Ross is currently an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado and is on faculty at the Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. She has authored several book chapters and publications related to feeding preterm infants and infants with medical comorbidities. Dr. Ross provides clinical consultation to several Newborn Intensive Care Units (NICU) within the HealthONE system in Denver, in addition to providing professional education and research consultation through Feeding FUNdamentals, LLC. She created SOFFI®, a training program for caregivers in the NICU and therapists and other professionals working with babies who are having problems breast or bottle feeding at home. She brings 30+ years of experience working with premature infants and infants with medical problems.
Lisa has been working with Toomey & Associates, Inc. since November 2013.
Caraly has been working with Toomey & Associates, Inc. since September 2022.
Tricia has been working with Toomey & Associates, Inc. since May 2023.
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