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Month: July 2012

Ask A Therapist: Feeding Therapy with Bite Straws

Hi Lori. Without seeing the student, can you tell me if this sounds like accurate application of the Feeding Therapies we learned in your workshop? When using the bite straws with a one year old girl with Down’s, she moves her head to the side to which the straw is presented to instantly suck the applesauce […]

July 30, 2012 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: A SENSORY-MOTOR APPROACH TO FEEDING, ASK A THERAPIST, BITE STRAWS, CHEWING HIERARCHY, CUP DRINKING, DOWN SYNDROME, FEEDING WORKSHOP, FEEDINGFEEDING THERAPY, LORI, LORI OVERLAND, STRAW DRINKING, TONGUE HUGS, TONGUE LATERALIZATIONTONGUE PROTRUSION, V SUPPORT

Ask A Therapist: Bite Block Hierarchy Application

I bought the OPT Program, but am struggling with one part of it. I have a child who can hold the bite block #2 between her teeth on the L and R sides for 15 seconds with isometric pull. She can’t hold both of the bite blocks between her teeth at the same time with isometric pull (Exercise […]

July 23, 2012 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ASK A THERAPIST, BITE BLOCK EXERCISES, BITE BLOCK HIERARCHY, BITE BLOCKS, BITE TUBE HIERARCHY, BITE TUBE SETJAW GRADING BITE BLOCKS, OPT BOOK, OPT PROGRAM, ORAL MOTOR EXERCISES, ORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY FOR SPEECH CLARITY AND FEEDINGSARA ROSENFELD-JOHNSON, TALKTOOLS HIERARCHIES

Ask A Therapist: Complicated Premie with Feeding Issues

I am treating a beautiful, 4 month old baby born at 29 weeks gestation. Meyer was immediately intubated and sent to NICU where he experienced bouts of apnea. Meyer was given feeds on 2/3 for 5 days with good suck and intake, but subsequently required surgery for Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC – a gastrointestinal disease, that […]

July 16, 2012 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ASK A THERAPIST, BRADYCARDIA, BRADYS, BREAST MILK, BREASTFEEDING, FEEDING, FEEDING TUBE, GERD, HABERMAN FEEDERLARYNGOMALACIA, LORI OVERLAND, NEC, NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS, NICU, OPMS, ORAL MOTOR EXERCISES, ORAL MOTOR SKILLSORAL PHARYNGEAL MOTILITY STUDY, ORAL-MOTOR, PREMIE, THICKENED BREAST MILK

Ask A Therapist: Oral Motor Strengthening

I was just assigned a 13 month old who was diagnosed at birth with bells palsy. He is much better now and the weakness on one side only shows up when he smiles (mom showed me how it droops in pictures). I want to do some oral motor strengthening. I have chosen a combination of […]

July 9, 2012 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ASK A THERAPIST, BECKMAN, BELLS PALSY, CHEEK RESISTANCE, CHEEK STRETCH, FEEDING THERAPY, FISH LIP POPS, LORI, LORI OVERLANDORAL MOTOR, ORAL MOTOR EXERCISES, ORAL MOTOR STRENGHTENING, PRE-FEEDING EXERCISES

Ask A Therapist: Feeding Evaluation Questions

We are just beginning our feeding clinic at a Medical Center for outpatient pediatrics. I have done one feeding evaluation since taking your class Feeding Therapy: A Sensory-Motor Approach, but now have a child on my caseload with an EXTENSIVE medical history, whom I am to evaluate. He has Tubuler/Tuberous sclerosis (tumors growing in his brain […]

July 2, 2012 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ASK A THERAPIST, AUTISM, BRADYCARDIA, FEEDING THERAPY, FEEDING TUBE, G-TUBE, GERD, LORI OVERLAND, MBS, MICKEY TUBEORAL STIMULATION, PEG TUBE, SENSORY INPUT, SENSORY MAP, TOOTHETTE, TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS, TUBULER, VIBRATOR & TOOTHETTE