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Tag: SENSORY SYSTEM

Ask a Therapist: Breathing & Sleep Patterns

Answer: A strong starting point is training on tethered oral tissues (TOTs), plus practical coursework focused on teaching nasal breathing and understanding how the sensory system can impact daily routines (including sleep). If you’re looking for courses for mouth breathing and sleep apnea, especially when snoring and disrupted sleep continue even after tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy, targeted continuing […]

Success Story: Lily & Vanessa

LILY, 3 YEARS 4 MONTHS OLD, UNILATERAL CLEFT LIP AND PALATE When I saw that my former supervisor from my job during college and graduate school was adopting another special needs child from China, I was glued to their journey (the family had adopted a boy with cleft lip/palate from China previously). I watched from my computer screen […]

Socialization at School

Sometimes it is weird how you will look back on certain times in your life and see the struggles you had quite clearly.  But at the time, you are simply so in the moment that you don’t really realize just how tough it was.  I will use the example of how we handled the socialization […]