Dietetics

Fuelling bodies, inspiring abilities.

Having a healthy relationship with food can unlock all sorts of amazing life benefits – so what are #yourgoals? Are you ready to explore new foods to overcome fussy eating? Do you want to contribute more to cooking by learning how to find recipes that help you adapt to modified eating plans? Perhaps you’d like to make better eating choices that help fuel your body for better mobility? Or maybe you just want to be more independent around the house?

Age

All ages

Diagnosis

Amputations (Single/Multiple)
Angelman Syndrome
Arthrogryposis
Attention Deficit (Hyperactive) Disorder

Autism/PDD

Batten Disease

Bi-Polar

Blind/Vision Impairment

Brain Injury (Acquired)

Brain Tumor

Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease

Charge Syndrome

Cornelia de Lange Syndrome

Cri du Chat Syndrome

Deaf/Hearing Impairment

Dementia / Alzheimer's

Developmental Delay (0-8 years only)

Down Syndrome

Dysgraphia

Dyslexia

Dysreflexia

Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

Encephalitis

Epilepsy

Facial Auricular Vertebral Syndrome

Fibromyalgia

Fragile X Syndrome

Friedreich AtaXia

Generalised Dystonia

Guilliane Barre Syndrome

Hallervorden Spatz Disease

Huntington’s Chorea

Intellectual Disability

Laurence Moon-Bartel Syndrome

Lennox Gastaut Syndrome

Microcephaly

Minicore Myopathy

Motor Neurone Disease

Moyamoya Disease

Multiple Sclerosis

Muscular Dystrophy

Nemaline Rod Myopathy

Neurodiverse

Obessive Compulsive Disorder

Parkinson's Disease

Poliomyelitis

Prader-Willi Syndrome

Psychiatric Disability

Rett Syndrome

Seckel Syndrome

Speech Impairment

Spina Bifida

Spinal Cord Injury

Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Stroke

Trisomy 18

Tuberous Sclerosis CompleX

Williams Syndrome

At Rocky Bay, we see food as a kind of medical nutrition therapy. Our dietetics service is designed to look at your condition or situation and prescribe a nutrition therapy to help meet those needs. It’s all about optimum living and being as healthy as you can be. We start with a nutrition assessment to find out more about things that might impact your eating (which could be something like nausea related to medication or bowel problems). Then we delve deeper into what’s affecting it, searching for clues as to what’s really going on so we can unlock new ways to meet your nutritional requirements. Often, we’ll identify causes outside of our expertise, such as psychological or swallowing issues. And thanks to our direct links to other teams in the Rocky Bay family, from OTs, to Speech Therapists and Psychologists, we can refer you to a specialist to ensure continuity of care.

Our job is to give you a process to help overcome the barriers. We work one on one, using compassion (not judgement) to consider all the other things going on and try to work with you to introduce new foods in a safe way that feels comfortable. The results can be life changing. When you try new things or play an active role in preparing food, it’s possible to enjoy food more and relieve you or your carer of unnecessary stress and pressure.