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Success Story: Terrance & Vanessa

Terrance & Vanessa: TalkTools Feeding Therapy Win Home › Blog › Success Story: Terrance & Vanessa Success Story Success Story: Terrance & Vanessa Therapist Vanessa Anderson-Smith shares how Terrance — a 26-month-old told he would ‘never chew properly’ — learned to eat everything at the family dinner table within 6 months of TalkTools OPT. TT […]

December 14, 2015 administrator Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: ANDERSON-SMITH SPEECH THERAPY, BUBBLE BLOWING HIERARCHY, BUBBLE KIT, CHEWING HIERARCHY, CHEWY TUBES, FEEDING THERAPYFEEDING THERAPY ASSESSMENT, HONEY BEAR, HORN 1, HORN HIERARCHY, JAW STABILITY, LIP ROUNDING, OPT, ORAL MOTOR THERAPYORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY, ORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY ASSESSMENT, ORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY PLAN, PRE-FEEDING EXERCISESRED CHEWY TUBE, RENEE ROY HILL, SENSORY MOTOR SYSTEM, SPEECH THERAPY ASSESSMENT, SPEECH THERAPY PLANSPEECH THERAPY TREATMENT PLAN, STRAW #3, STRAW HIERARCHY, SUCCESS STORIES, TALKTOOLS TRAINED THERAPIST, TERRANCETHERAPY SUCCESS STORY, TONGUE RETRACTION, VANESSA ANDERSON-SMITH, YELLOW CHEWY TUBE

Autism Spectrum Disorders: Clinical Parameters of Oral Placement Therapy (OPT)

Authors: Robyn Merkel-Walsh M.A., CCC-SLP & Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson M.S., CCC-SLP Foreword: This article, in the original form, was published in Advance Magazine for Speech Pathologists. The article has been expanded upon and revised with current Evidenced Based Practice. Abstract: Autism is a developmental disability that affects, often severely, a person’s ability to communicate and socially interact with others. Autism Spectrum […]

August 10, 2015 administrator From the Experts Comments (0) Details
Tags: AUTISM, FROM THE EXPERTS, HORN HIERARCHY, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, Oral Placement Therapy, ROBYN MERKEL-WALSHSARA ROSENFELD-JOHNSON, SENSORY PROCESSING, SPEECH THERAPY, STRAW HIERARCHY, TALKTOOLS THERAPY

22 MONTHS: FAMILY TIME & HORN PROGRESS

We have some fun pictures in this update including one of Belle with her extremely loving brother and sister. You can also see Belle enjoying her veggie straws at therapy (notice her food placement on her side molars) and having fun with some Play-Doh.    Our family’s schedule has been quite busy lately, so I try my best to get […]

July 27, 2015 administrator Annabelle's Progress Comments (0) Details
Tags: ANNABELLE, ANNABELLE'S MONTHLY UPDATES, ANNABELLE'S PROGRESS, DOWN SYNDROME, FEEDING THERAPY, HORN 2, HORN BLOWING, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN THERAPY, OPT, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, Oral Placement Therapy, RECESSED LID CUP

21 MONTHS: REPEATING WORDS

Belle is continuing to progress month after month. She has become more vocal, and she has officially mastered walking. Belle is confident in her ability to walk anywhere she wants to go. She consistently says 23+ words and is trying to say several more but may leave the beginning or ending sounds off. For example, in […]

June 29, 2015 administrator Annabelle's Progress Comments (0) Details
Tags: ANNABELLE, ANNABELLE'S MONTHLY UPDATES, ANNABELLE'S PROGRESS, APRAXIA TACTILE TUBES, APRAXIA THERAPY, APRAXIA TOOLS, APRAXIA TUBES, DOWN SYNDROME, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN THERAPY, HOWN BLOWING, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, Oral Placement Therapy, SPEECH THERAPY, TALKTOOLS TACTILE TUBES

18 MONTHS: CHEWING WITH HER NEW TEETH

Annabelle is continuing to do well with her straws and eating. Several of her teeth are coming in all at the same time so she is getting to eat a bigger variety of foods, which she enjoys. We continue to do her OPT exercises twice a day. She doesn’t love them, but I try to […]

March 31, 2015 administrator Annabelle's Progress Comments (0) Details
Tags: ANNABELLE, ANNABELLE'S MONTHLY UPDATES, ANNABELLE'S PROGRESS, DOWN SYNDROME, FEEDING THERAPY, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN KITHORN THERAPY, OPT, Oral Placement Therapy, TALKTOOLS

Ask A Therapist: Vent Weaning with the Horn Hierarchy

Hi Sara,   I attended one of your conferences in April.  I typically work with preschoolers with speech motor issues.  But my question is actually about a teenage boy on a ventilator.   Because it is not something that I typically do I didn’t think of this sooner, but what I am wondering is if […]

November 6, 2013 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ASK A THERAPIST, HORN BLOWING, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN KIT, HORN THERAPY, SARA ROSENFELD-JOHNSON, SPINAL CORD INJURYVENT WEANING

HORN #10 AND OTHER HORN HIERARCHY UPDATES

Hi Therapists and Parents, I just wanted to let everyone know that we have made a change to the TalkTools Horn Hierarchy.  After much consideration we determined that the hierarchy can be improved upon. We will no longer be using the “magic ball pipe” as the #10 horn; instead we will be re-introducing an old favorite among […]

August 28, 2013 administrator TalkTools News Comments (0) Details
Tags: AIRFLOW, HORN BLOWING, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN KIT, HORN PROGRAM, HORN THERAPY, SARA ROSENFELD-JOHNSON, TalkTools News

Ask a Therapist: OPT with Adult Suffering from MSA

Hi! I am a trained speech-language pathologist, working in Sweden. I have taken part of the video-based course in the OPT-method and have very positive experiences from using the program with my former clients in a children’s rehabilitation center. Now I work with elderly patients, primarily suffering from stroke but also with a wide spectra […]

August 5, 2013 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ADULT, ADULT CLIENT, ADULT PATIENT, AIRFLOW, ASK A THERAPIST, BITE TUBE SET, BITE TUBES, CHEWY TUBES, DEGENERATIVE DISEASEDYSARTHRIA, DYSPHAGIA, HORN BLOWING, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN KIT, HORN THERAPY, LEE SILVERMAN-METHOD, MSA, OPTORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY, PARKINSON, PARKINSONS, SPEECH THERAPY, STRAW DRINKING, STRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW KIT, STRAW THERAPYSTROKE RECOVERY

Ask a Therapist: Horn Hierarchy Targeting Specific Phonemes?

Hi, I have a student that backs sounds meaning he has difficulty making /t/ & /d/ sounds.  Do you sell a horn that would help?   School-Based Speech-Language Pathologist Hi, I am so pleased you decided to contact us as the Horn program has been very beneficial for so many of our child clients with muscle-based articulation […]

July 9, 2013 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
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Ask a Therapist: Adult Patients with Velopharyngeal Closure

Ask A Therapist: Adult Patients with Velopharyngeal Closure | TalkTools Home › Ask A Therapist › Adult Patients with Velopharyngeal Closure Ask A Therapist Ask A Therapist: Adult Patients with Velopharyngeal Closure An SLP working with adult stroke patients asks how to incorporate horn therapy for velopharyngeal closure. Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson explains the two-phase OPT approach: […]

May 27, 2013 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ADULT BOOK, ADULT CLIENTS, ADULT PATIENTS, ADULT SPEECH THERAPY, ASK A THERAPIST, HORN BLOWING, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN KITHORN THERAPY, OPT BOOK, ORAL-NASAL CONTRASTS, SARA ROSENFELD-JOHNSON, SARA ROSENFELD-JOHNSON'S BOOKVELOPHARYNGEAL CLOSURE, VPI