Shirley Feng

Volunteer Speech-Language Pathologist

Having emigrated from China to the United States at an early age, Shirley shares similar experiences of communication difficulties with the children that she serves. 

Being passionate about inclusion and neurodiversity, an avid traveler, and fluent in Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin) and conversational in Japanese, she feels determined to give back to the global community as a multilingual speech-language pathologist.

Shirley received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from University of California, San Diego and Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology from California State University, East Bay. She is a certified member of the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and the California Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology & Hearing Dispensers Board. She is also a recipient of ASHA’s 2022 Distinguished Early Career Professional (ECP) Certificate.

She specializes in bilingual diagnostic evaluations and therapy treatments with children ranging in ages from 1-11 years old. She works with a diverse client group with Autism, Down syndrome, cognitive impairments, developmental delays, learning disabilities, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, fluency disorders, language disorders, articulation and phonological disorders. 

Additional trainings include:• Hanen Certified with “It Takes Two to Talk”

• Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC)
• Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT) Technique
• DIR Floortime
• Gestalt Language Processing/Natural Language Acquisition from Meaningfulspeech.com
• AEIOU: An Integrated Approach to Pediatric Feeding
• DIRFloortime®️ Basic Certificate

Aside from helping families and children, she travels the world with her partner and solo!

Janice Cho

Registered Dietitian & Co-Founder

Janice is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with with a Bachelor’s Degree in Nutritional Science from California Polytechnic State University, and a Master’s Degree in Nutritional Science from California State University in Long Beach. She is certified through the Commission on Dietetics Registration (USA), and a member of the Malaysian Dietitians Association. 

Her career began in her home state of California, working with high risk premature babies, kids and adults. After nearly 10 years of working in the hospital, Janice and Daniel, along with their newly adopted toddler, moved to New York City to work among immigrant families and communities. While in NYC, she started a new branch of The MomCo (MOPS), an international community of support, for mothers in the Bronx.

It was during these early years of motherhood that Janice realized the need for different ways to empower children with neurodivergence and those who have experienced trauma.  Her personal challenges as a parent lead her to pursue further training in responsive and trauma informed feeding practices and trust based parenting strategies.  Janice is trained in Responsive Feeding Therapy, Division of Responsibility, Attachment and Trauma Focused Therapy, and as a parent facilitator of Empowered to Connect’s Cultivate Connection Parent Course which was developed based on the work of Dr. Karyn Purvis and her colleagues  at the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development,. 

After adding two more boys to the family, she and her family of 5 moved to Malaysia.  Janice and Daniel founded Fed to Flourish to serve families who struggle to find support, free them from the shame of being different, and empower them to Flourish.

Daniel Cho, Co-Founder

Daniel received a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from California Polytechnic University, and a Master of Science in Systems Engineering from Loyola Marymount University in California.  After working for 10 years in aerospace engineering, he had the opportunity to merge his leadership skills with his passion for meeting the needs of the community as the director of a non profit in NYC.After years of trying to push through marriage and parenting struggles, Daniel realized that a new approach was needed to build connection within the family. Through counseling, training courses, learning about neurodivergence and the effects of trauma, he was convinced that traditional parenting strategies don’t work for everyone. Building trust and connection within the family is a journey, and Daniel is passionate about helping other parents along that path.

Daniel is certified as a coach with CernySmith Assessment, trained in The Coach Model, and as a facilitator of Empowered to Connect’s Cultivate Connection Parenting Course which was developed based on the work of Dr. Karyn Purvis and her colleagues. His experience in a variety of disciplines has equipped him to play an essential role as co-founder of Fed to Flourish.