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 […]
Speech Intelligibility: Overcoming Unclear Speech with Targeted Therapy
Speech Intelligibility: Overcoming Unclear Speech with Therapy Home › General › Speech Intelligibility: Overcoming Unclear Speech with Targeted Therapy General Speech Intelligibility: Overcoming Unclear Speech with Targeted Therapy When listeners frequently ask a speaker to repeat themselves, daily life becomes harder. Learn how OPT and expressive therapies improve speech clarity, and what the research shows. […]
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 […]
Supported Employment Success: Elizabeth’s Promotion
Because growth doesn’t stop after graduation, supported employment success is built one small win at a time. Elizabeth’s story shows how those wins add up to big independence. Elizabeth just got what we are calling a promotion. The catering company where she has worked since high school invited her to take on the monthly “set” […]
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: Eliminating a Non-Nutritive Suckle
Assessment and Treatment of the Jaw, jaw book, non-nutritive suck, Non-Nutritive Suckle, nutrition, straw hierarchy, suckle, tmj
Ask A Therapist: Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome & Tongue Protrusion
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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 […]
5.4 YEARS: FOUNDATION IS EVERYTHING
Our month began by visiting family out of town for more than a week, so needless to say our oral motor exercises took a ‘back seat’. Shortly after we settled back in at home, Annabelle began to be very sick with a fever, lots of drainage, croup, and eventually a sinus infection for 8 days. She was […]