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Ask A Therapist: Eliminating a Non-Nutritive Suckle
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Ask A Therapist: Why Use the Term “Oral Placement Therapy” (OPT) over “Oral Motor Exercises”?
We received the below from a therapist that works in the Academic arena and wanted to share the response. I am interested to know why you changed the terminology you use from Oral Motor Exercises to Oral Placement Therapy? Thank you for your question. Oral–motor is a term that is still widely used in our field. It is appropriate to […]
Ask A Therapist: Bubble Therapy
My nephew is 3 years old with Down syndrome. We have bought the Straw, Horn and Bubble kits. Following your instructions in DVD, he is doing great with straw and horn, but he does not accept bubble therapy at all, though he did well in the first exercise. We live in a country with limited qualified speech therapists, therefore we are […]
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: Thickened Liquids & Straw Hierarchy
I am using your straws for therapy with several of my students. When we get to the thickened liquid steps I am not sure what food to use at the puree and pudding consistencies, as my student is allergic to wheat and dairy products. Can you offer suggestions or guidance? This is a great question and one […]
Knightly’s First Word
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A Sensory-Motor Aproach to CAS & Related Motor Speech Disorders: Why and How
This presentation is going to be held at the Texas Speech-Language & Hearing Association 2017 Annual Convention, Thursday. Feb. 23, noon-1:30 p.m. Author: Renee Roy Hill, MS, CCC-SLP Abstract: Discuss treatment of clients diagnosed with apraxia of speech and related motor speech disorders. Explore 1) Childhood Apraxia of Speech 2) Related Motor Speech Disorders 3) Van […]
Brain Stem Stroke: A Case Study
This case study was originally posted in Advance for Speech & Hearing on November 14, 2016. Retrieved from http://www.advanceweb.com/ Author: Gabrielle Zimmer, MS, CCC-SLP Brain Stem Stroke: A Case Study Rebuilding communication one subsystem at a time. Where do you start when a client understands everything that is said but has no way to communicate back to you? He cannot […]
HOW THIS RESEARCHER TOOK A STEP TOWARD CLINICIANS: RAY D. KENT, PHD’S LATEST FINDINGS
Recently, Ray D. Kent, PhD has published a review article entitled “Nonspeech Oral Movements and Oral Motor Disorders: A Narrative Review,” in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, November 2015, Vol. 24, 763-789. In this article, Kent proposes careful definitions and task descriptions to analyze if nonspeech oral movements have substantial clinical value to oral motor disorders. This […]