Understanding Oral Placement Therapy – Complete Guide TalkTools Oral Placement Therapy • Speech Clarity • Feeding Support Multisensory Tactile + Visual + Auditory Hierarchy-Based Understanding Oral Placement Therapy (OPT): Evidence-Based Speech & Feeding Intervention A comprehensive guide to improving speech clarity, feeding skills, and oral motor function through targeted tactile-proprioceptive techniques. Designed for families, clinicians, […]
Speech Intelligibility: Overcoming Unclear Speech with Targeted Therapy
If people often say “Huh?” to your teen, daily life gets harder. As a result, class talks, hangouts, and even ordering food can feel stressful. Speech intelligibility means how much of your teen’s speech others understand. Fortunately, a study with 60 adolescents found two therapies helped—oral placement therapy (OPT) and expressive therapy. Both groups improved […]
TalkTools Success Stories: Customer Spotlights & Real-World Results
Meet three voices behind real TalkTools success stories—a clinician (and mom) who advanced to Level 4 OPT, a parent whose child found his voice with the Horn Kit, and a public SLP specialist. Spotlight 1: Anne Salah Aziz — Therapist/Specialist (and Mom) TalkTools Journey Using TalkTools since: 2017 (began with Level 1 OPT in Egypt) […]
Bite Tubes 101: How TalkTools Bite Tube Supports Jaw Stability, Safer Chewing, and Speech Clarity
If you’re working with clients who chew on their tongue or clothing, show open-mouth posture, or fatigue during chewing, TalkTools® Bite Tubes can be a game-changer. These therapist-designed tools provide targeted temporomandibular joint (TMJ) input and graded jaw work to support safer chewing and clearer speech patterns. In “Ask a Therapist,” TalkTools clinicians explain that […]
Supported Employment Success: Elizabeth’s Promotion
Because growth doesn’t stop after graduation, supported employment success is built one small win at a time. Elizabeth’s story shows how those wins add up to big independence. Elizabeth just got what we are calling a promotion. The catering company where she has worked since high school invited her to take on the monthly “set” […]
Ask A Therapist: Cranial Dystonia & Embouchure Disorder
Quick answer: Cranial dystonia is a broad term for dystonia affecting areas of the head/face (often including jaw, face, and tongue), which can impact chewing, speech, and swallowing. Embouchure dystonia is a task-specific dystonia that can affect brass/woodwind players and may show up only when forming the embouchure or playing. Because TalkTools’ Oral Placement Therapy […]
Ask A Therapist: Eliminating a Non-Nutritive Suckle
Assessment and Treatment of the Jaw, jaw book, non-nutritive suck, Non-Nutritive Suckle, nutrition, straw hierarchy, suckle, tmj
Ask A Therapist: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome & Tongue Protrusion
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Ask A Therapist: When to Start Tongue Retraction Exercises
I have attended two of Sara‘s workshops. I have a 7-11 year old student with a frontal lisp who still sucks his thumb at night and sometimes during the day. His tongue is forward with an open mouth position when he is at rest. I haven’t yet checked to see if his swallow is affected. Should […]
Ask A Therapist: Help with Breathing Issues
I need your advice for a client with Treacher Collins Syndrome. The child has had his left lip and palate repaired, his face & skull are severely deformed. We have been doing OPT for 1 year: greatest improvement is in blowing (from not able to blow to Horn #4, Bubble Bear 1 feet; he can do depressor press with 14 […]