Understanding Oral Placement Therapy (OPT) Home › General › Understanding Oral Placement Therapy (OPT) General Understanding Oral Placement Therapy (OPT) A comprehensive guide to improving speech clarity, feeding skills, and oral motor function through targeted tactile-proprioceptive techniques, designed for families, clinicians, and educators. TT TalkTools Editorial Team Clinical Education February 4, 2026 7 min read […]
TalkTools Success Stories: Real Customer Spotlights & Proven Results
TalkTools Success Stories: Real-World Results Home › Blog › TalkTools Success Stories: Customer Spotlights & Real-World Results Success Story 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 […]
Bite Tubes 101: How TalkTools Bite Tube Supports Jaw Stability, Safer Chewing, and Speech Clarity
Bite Tubes 101: TalkTools Bite Tubes for Jaw Stability Home › General › Bite Tubes 101 General Bite Tubes 101: How TalkTools Bite Tubes Support Jaw Stability, Safer Chewing, and Speech Clarity If you work with clients who chew on their tongue or clothing, show open-mouth posture, or fatigue during chewing — TalkTools Bite Tubes […]
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: Tongue Tie Assessment
The question Do you have any advice for tongue tie assessment? Therapist answer Yes! The good news is we have many resources for TOTs, like an eLearning course for TOTs screening called TOTs 5-Step Screening Tool, as well as a book titled Functional Assessment and Remediation of TOTs. We also offer a deep dive course […]
A Mother’s Journey with Down Syndrome: Rachel Cunningham’s Story of Hope & Love
Down Syndrome SLP Parent: Rachel Cunningham’s Story Home › Blog › “Share Your Story” Winner: Rachel Cunningham Share Your Story “Share Your Story” Winner: Rachel Cunningham SLP and mom Rachel Cunningham describes how her personal and professional worlds collided when her daughter Selah was born with Down syndrome, and how TalkTools supported their journey. TT […]
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 […]
4.9 YEARS: FULL SUMMER MODE!
We are in full summer mode here! Belle has been enjoying some horseback riding lessons, swimming, cheering on her siblings at baseball games, and finishing up a great dancing year with a big dance recital. The recital took up a substantial part of the beginning of our summer, so that’s where all our pictures came from […]
TalkTools Sponsors a Multi-Disciplinary Trip to Ghana
Down syndrome speech clarity is possible at any age. Emma started TalkTools OPT therapy at 18 with severe jaw weakness, and by 24, her speech had transformed completely.