About This Practice: Nutrition Care For Children LLC
Using nutrition-focused tools for allergy, autism, ashtma, add/adhd & more since 1999
Children with autism, food allergies, growth and feeding problems, developmental delay, or learning, mood, and behavior problems often have treatable nutrition problems that respond well to targeted nutrition care. As a new mom in 1996, Judy Converse was already an experienced dietitian. But she found her pediatric providers did not have answers she sought to her own baby'sproblems with feeding, growth, allergy, and development. Nutrition Care For Children sprung out of this need in 1999, to help infants, toddlers, and children who benefit from nutrition care but are rarely referred for it. Judy provides nutrition care for children ages 0-21, and works with with non-profits, federal programs, and nutrition companies to provide education, training, and support on how nutrition and diets work for children with special needs. If you have worked with your major medical center on growth and feeding issues but your child is still not progressing as hoped, Nutrition Care For Children may be able to help.
About Judy Converse, MPH RD LD
Judy has been a registered dietitian since 1989, and licensed with the Board of Dietitians and Nutritionists in Massachusetts since 2000. She has a master's degree in public health nutrition from the University of Hawaii, and a bachelor's degree in food science and human nutrition from the University of Vermont. Prior to setting up her practice, Judy worked as a nutrition educator for Hawaii Medical Service Association, and as an outpatient dietitian for Kaiser Permanente. She has authored two books with a third due in fall 2010 (Perigee Press). She published the first accredited learning module on autism and nutrition, testified before state and federal legislators for safer vaccines, and lectures to both parent and professional audiences on nutrition/special diets for autism, child nutrition, food allergies, and nutrition care process for autism. Originally from New England, she lives in Colorado with her husband and son.
Licenses and Affiliations:
Commission on Dietetic Registration: no. 723886
Massachusetts Board of Dietitians & Nutritionists: no. 429
Imagine! of Colorado provider for Early Intervention and Autism Services
Hawaii Dietetic Assocation Public Relations Chairperson, 1992-3
Student Innovator, University of Hawaii School of Public Health, 1988
Speaker for US Autism & Asperger'sAssociation, 2007
Speaker, Autism Research Institute'sDefeat Autism Now! (DAN!) Conference, 2009
Speaker, Autism One, 2010
Colorado Autism Society Policy Committee Member
Collegial, Referring, and Collaborative Relationships:
Autism Society of Rhode Island
Schwartz Center for Children, New Bedford, MA
The Marion Foundation, Marion, MA
University Affiliated Cincinnati Center for Developmental Disorders, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Massachusetts General Hospital Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition Unit, Boston, MA
Autism Support Center, Danvers, MA
Cape Cod Child Development Early Intervention Program, Hyannis, MA
Occupational Therapy Associates, Wakefield, MA
Children Making Strides, Bourne, MA
Department of Mental Retardation, Massaschusetts Department of Public Health
Imagine!, Boulder, CO
Autism Society of Boulder County, Boulder, CO
Boulder Community Hosptial, Mapleton Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinic, Boulder, CO
US Autism Asperger's Association