Hi, I am hoping you can offer a suggestion. I am an SLP and see a 2 YO child who began sucking on his tongue and had a forward tongue posture before I started seeing him. Once I started working with him I had the family switch to straws only and eliminated the sippy cup. […]

Hello, I am a speech language pathologist who has attended one of your presentations. I see an 8 year old girl who has a tongue thrust.  She has had a habit breaker that she has been wearing for a few years (the device that she wears on her front teeth and it stops the tongue […]

We are happy to be partnering with the Charge Syndrome Foundation and The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness to present  “Techniques to Improve Feeding Skills and Speech Clarity”.  The webinar, presented by Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson M.S. CCC-SLP was held on February 24, 2013, 7pm EST. In this presentation, Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson describes and teaches the techniques she has developed in her work with infants […]

I recently purchased the straw therapy kit for my 17 1/2 month old daughter with Down syndrome. She was breastfed for the first year and we began transitioning to a straw cup around 9-10 months old. I also have kept the tip of the straw short each time. She does not have tongue protrusion and only occasionally […]

“ABA verbal” Great article by Risca Solomon MSc, Board Certified Behavior Analyst, UK.  Risca and Renee Roy Hill have worked together both in the UK and US. This article was published in S&L World in November! Great read!

My 5-year-old son has Down syndrome and chews on grabbers (purple and green Ps). He chews and bites so hard that he bites through the tubes. Any recommendations? He only eats pureed food, bananas, and Cheerios. He can chew chicken but doesn’t want to. Thanks,Susan It sounds like your son likes the sensory information he […]

I have a 4 year old student with CHARGE SYNDROME. He has minimal intake and could be looking at a feeding tube if this declines any more. Mom is totally fighting with him (holding one hand with her mouth, the other with her non-feeding hand and then spoon feeding with the other!). Feedings take at […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]