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TALKTOOLS INSTRUCTOR IN NORWAY, LINE AVERS IN MEDIA PLANET

In this article in Norwegian published in Media Planet, Line Avers discusses the need in many cases to look at the child´s foundational skills for feeding and speech. “In feeding therapy just as in speech therapy, it’s about doing exercises that contribute to strengthen mouth muscles and improve oral motor skills,” says TalkTools® Instructor in Norway, Line Avers. “Det er mange barn […]

January 19, 2016 administrator TalkTools News Comments (0) Details
Tags: BARNAS SPRÅKSENTER, CEREBRAL PALSY, DOWN SYNDROME, FEEDING THERAPY, FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS, FROM THE EXPERTS, LINE AVERSNORWAY, NORWEGIAN, OPT, Oral Placement Therapy, SENSORY FEEDING, SENSORY ISSUES, SENSORY PROCESSINGSENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SPEECH THERAPY

2 YEARS 4&5 MONTHS: MISS INDEPENDENT

2 Years 4 Months Hello! Attached are two videos of Belle working on some wooden puzzles – one of her name and one that includes shapes of different colors. She loves puzzles! She is a little more chatty in the name puzzle one though. B is her favorite letter so far. Working on the name […]

December 28, 2015 administrator Annabelle's Progress Comments (0) Details
Tags: ANNABELLE, ANNABELLE UPDATES, ANNABELLE'S MONTHLY UPDATES, ANNABELLE'S PROGRESS, CHILD INDEPENDENCE, DOWN SYNDROMEDOWN SYNDROME THERAPY, HORN #3, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN KIT, LANIE BEETSMA, NAME PUZZLE, OPT, ORAL MOTOR THERAPYORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY, PUZZLES, SHAPE PUZZLE, TALKTOOLS HORN HIERARCHY, TALKTOOLS HORN KIT, TALKTOOLS THERAPY, VOCABULARYWHITNEY PIMENTEL

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

AAPPSPA Position Statement – Oral-Motor Therapy

Good news! The American Academy of Private Practice in Speech Pathology and Audiology (AAPPSPA) has accepted a position statement TalkTools® Instructor Robyn Merkel-Walsh proposed on Oral Motor Therapy. American Academy of Private Practice in Speech Pathology and Audiology (AAPPSPA) Position Statement – Oral-motor Therapy Originally posted on AAPPSPA website. By Robyn Merkel-Walsh, MA, CCC-SLP Foreword: In order to investigate […]

December 2, 2015 administrator From the Experts Comments (0) Details
Tags: AAPPSPA, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PRIVATE PRACTICE IN SPEECH PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY, ASHA SIG13, AUDITORY AND VISUAL CUEINGCLINICAL EVIDENCE, CUE FADING, DYSARTHRIA, DYSPHAGIA, EBP, EVIDENCED BASED PRACTICE, FEEDING THERAPY, FROM THE EXPERTSGREGORY LOF, IAOM INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF OROFACIAL MYOLOGY, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OROFACIAL MYOLOGY, LOFMOTO-KINESTHETIC SPEECH TRAINING, MOTOR-BASED DIAGNOSES, MUSCLE-BASED DIAGNOSES, MUSCLES OF THE ABDOMENMYOFUNCTIONAL THERAPY, NON-SPEECH ORAL-MOTOR EXERCISES, NSOME, OMD, OPD, OPT, ORAL IMITATION TASKS, ORAL MOTOR INSTITUTE, ORAL MOTOR THERAPYORAL PLACEMENT DISORDER, Oral Placement Therapy, ORAL SPEECH TOOLS, ORAL-MOTOR TREATMENTOROFACIAL MYOFUNCTIONAL DISORDERS, OROFACIAL MYOLOGIST, PERSPECTIVES ON SWALLOWING AND SWALLOWING DISORDERSPHONETIC PLACEMENT THERAPY, PPT, PRE-FEEDING EXERCISES, PROMPT FACIAL CUE, SENSORY-MOTOR DYSFUNCTIONSPEECH SOUND PRODUCTION, SWALLOWING EXERCISES, TACTILE INTERVENTION, TACTILE-KINESTHETIC FACILITATION TECHNIQUETACTILE-KINESTHETIC TECHNIQUE, THE FEEDBACK MODEL, THERAPY TOOL

Oral Placement Therapy (OPT) vs. Non-Speech Oral Motor Exercises (NSOME): Understanding the Debate

By: Robyn Merkel-Walsh, MA, CCC-SLP & Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson, MS, CCC-SLP This poster was presented at the 2015 annual ASHA Convention, Session #9333, Poster Board #602. INTRODUCTION Presentation explores 1) defining Non-Speech Oral Motor Exercises, 2) defining Oral Placement Therapy, 3) understanding the difference between NSOME and OPT, 4) clinical implications for Evidenced Based Practice. Two widely used models of articulation […]

November 18, 2015 administrator From the Experts Comments (0) Details
Tags: ARTICULATORS, ASHA 2015, ASHA POSTER SESSION, BILABIAL CLARITY, BILABIAL PRODUCTION, EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE, FEEDBACK MODELFROM THE EXPERTS, GREGORY LOF, LOF, NON-SPEECH ORAL MOTOR, NSOME, OPT, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, Oral Placement Therapy, ORAL PLACEMENTORAL PLACEMENT DISORDER, ORAL-MOTOR, PHONATORY CONTROL, PHONETIC PLACEMENT APPROACHPHONETIC PLACEMENT CUE, PHONETIC PLACEMENT THERAPY, PHONOLOGICAL MODEL, ROBYN MERKEL-WALSH, SARA ROSENFELD-JOHNSONSPEECH CLARITY, SPEECH THERAPY POSTER, TONGUE WAGGING, TRADITIONAL MODEL, VAN RIPER

2 YEARS 1 MONTH: KEEPING BELLE MOTIVATED

Belle is now 2 years and 1 month old and is continuing to do well. You can see in the video below the improvement Belle has made with her Oral Placement Therapy (OPT) exercises. I only made her go to 10 on the horn, but she can do 25 fairly easily when I can her motivated. […]

October 26, 2015 administrator Annabelle's Progress Comments (0) Details
Tags: ANNABELLE, ANNABELLE'S MONTHLY UPDATES, ANNABELLE'S PROGRESS, BUBBLE BEAR BUBBLE HIERARCHY, DOWN SYNDROME, HORN #2HORN HIERARCHY, OPT, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, Oral Placement Therapy, TALKTOOLS THERAPY, WHITNEY PIMENTEL

NOVEMBER 2015 LIVE WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

We have speech and feeding therapy workshops across the U.S. this November. Our 1 and 2 day hands-on courses cover a variety of diagnoses including Down syndrome, Apraxia of Speech, Dysphagia, Autism (ASD), and Dyspraxia among others. Therapy techniques that improve speech and feeding by focusing on abdominal grading, tongue mobility, lip rounding, and jaw strength, stability and grading are demonstrated. Detailed workshop information and registration is available here. We are […]

October 5, 2015 administrator TalkTools News Comments (0) Details
Tags: CEUS, CONTINUING EDUCATION, FEEDING THERAPY, LIVE WORKSHOPS, OPT, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, ORAL PLACEMENT THERAPYSPEECH THERAPY, TALKTOOLS, TalkTools News, TALKTOOLS THERAPY

OCTOBER 2015 LIVE WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

We have a very busy schedule this October with speech and feeding therapy workshops across the U.S. Our 1 and 2 day hands-on courses cover a variety of diagnoses including Down syndrome, Apraxia of Speech, Dysphagia, Autism (ASD), and Dyspraxia among others. Therapy techniques that improve speech and feeding by focusing on abdominal grading, tongue mobility, lip rounding, and jaw strength, stability and grading are demonstrated. Detailed workshop information and […]

September 7, 2015 administrator TalkTools News Comments (0) Details
Tags: ASHA, CEUS, CONTINUING EDUCATION, FEEDING THERAPY, LIVE WORKSHOPS, OPT, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, ORAL PLACEMENT THERAPYSPEECH THERAPY, TALKTOOLS, TALKTOOLS COURSES, TalkTools News, TALKTOOLS SEMINARS, TALKTOOLS THERAPY, TALKTOOLS WORKSHOPS

Success Story: Maddox

Maddox’s Down Syndrome OPT Home Practice Success Home › Blog › Success Story: Maddox Success Story Success Story: Maddox Maddox’s parents share how committing to 4-6 daily TalkTools OPT sessions from 20 to 40 months transformed their daughter with Down syndrome from 150 signs to full sentences at preschool. TT TalkTools TalkTools Blog August 24, […]

August 24, 2015 administrator Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: DOWN SYNDROME, MADDOX, OPT, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, Oral Placement Therapy, SARA ROSENFELD-JOHNSON, SPEECH THERAPYSUCCESS STORIES, TALKTOOLS, TALKTOOLS THERAPY, TONGUE THRUST

Success Story – Ozzie’s World

Ozzie’s World: Down Syndrome & Honey Bear Straw Home › Blog › Success Story: Ozzie’s World Success Story Success Story: Ozzie’s World Jason Smith shares how his son Ozzie — born with Down syndrome — learned to drink from a straw independently at just 4 months old, thanks to the TalkTools Honey Bear and consistent […]

August 3, 2015 administrator Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: DOWN SYNDROME, HONEY BEAR, OPT, Oral Placement Therapy, OZZIE'S WORLD, SUCCESS STORIES