Feeding and Swallowing Program | Contact Us

Please call or email our scheduling coordinators for more information:

• Phone: 617-355-7727
• Email: feedingandswallowingscheduling@childrens.harvard.edu

** We accept referrals from physicians and nurse practitioners, as well as directly from families. **

Thank you for entrusting Boston Children’s Hospital to partner with you on your patient’s care. The Center for Communication Enhancement offers the following programs with speech-language pathology services:

• Augmentative Communication Program
• Autism Language Program
• Jay S. Fishman ALS Augmentative Communication Program
• Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program
• Feeding and Swallowing Program
• Speech-Language Pathology Program
• Voice and Velopharyngeal Dysfunction Program

If you are a physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner with a patient who requires non-urgent speech-language pathology services in one of the Center for Communication Enhancement programs, please complete, print, and fax the form below to 617-730-6213. The Center for Communication Enhancement will contact the family within five business days to schedule an appointment or begin a scheduling intake process, when applicable, and close the loop with your practice.

This form is required to be completed for each new patient referral and for re-evaluation referral requests after 60 days from the original request. This form does not replace and is not an insurance referral request form, which is a separate document. If you have any further questions regarding this new process, please call 781-216-2200.

Students interested in observation should fill out the form at this link: www.childrenshospital.org/cce-observation.

We cannot guarantee requests for observation will be fulfilled.

Outpatient feeding and swallowing services are located:

**Please check the location of your appointment before making travel arrangements.