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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 […]

October 26, 2025 jayne Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: Caregivers, Clinicians, COMMUNICATION, Customer Spotlight, Epilepsy, FEEDING THERAPY, Home Practice, HORN KIT, Motor Learning, OPT, Oral Placement Therapy, Pediatric Therapy, SPEECH THERAPY, STRAW KIT, SUCCESS STORIES, TALKTOOLS, Torticollis

Ask A Therapist: Speech & Language Delay with Straw Kit & Horn Kit

Hello! I am Maria and I live in Singapore. I have just purchased the parent kit and started with the Horn #1 and have not seen any major problem so far. I am concerned about the Straw #1. When I started my son (he has some speech and language delay), he seemed to stop learning how to drink with a […]

May 23, 2018 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ASK A THERAPIST, FLEXIBLE STRAW, HONEY BEAR, HONEY BEAR CUP, HONEY BEAR STRAW CUP, HONEY BEAR WITH FLEXIBLE STRAW, HORN 1HORN KIT, PARENT KIT, RENEE ROY HILL, STRAW 1, STRAW DRINKING, STRAW KIT, STRAW TEXTURE

Success Story: Kamdyn & Vanessa

Kamdyn & Vanessa: Severe CAS Oral Motor Success Home › Blog › Success Story: Kamdyn & Vanessa Success Story Success Story: Kamdyn & Vanessa Therapist Vanessa Anderson-Smith revisits Kamdyn — a boy with severe Childhood Apraxia of Speech whose missed diagnosis and late OPT intervention still produced remarkable, rapid results. TT TalkTools Team TalkTools Blog […]

June 16, 2017 administrator Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: APRAXIA, BITE TUBE HIERARCHY, BITE TUBE SET, BUBBLE BLOWING, BUBBLE HIERARCHY, BUBBLE KIT, CAS, CHILDHOOD APRAXIA OF SPEECH, EAR INFECTIONS, EARLY INTERVENTION, GUM CHEWING, HIERARCHICAL APPROACH, HIGH PALATEHORN BLOWING, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN KIT, JAW ASYMMETRY, JAW STABILITY, JAW STRENGTH, LIP ROUNDING, ORAL MOTOR EXERCISESORAL PLACEMENT EXERCISES, Oral Placement Therapy, REVERSE SWALLOW, SENSORY WARMUP, SEVERE APRAXIA, SLOW FEEDSPEECH EVALUATION, SPEECH PRODUCTION, STRAW DRINKING, STRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW KIT, THERAPY SUCCESS, TONGUE TIEVANESSA ANDERSON-SMITH, Z-VIBE

12 MONTHS: SHE LOVES HER STRAWS

We have come a long way in the past several months, particularly since we teamed up with TalkTools to help provide therapy for our daughter Annabelle, who has Down syndrome. We love the progress our daughter has made in the past 12 months. She is so happy and lively, and frankly, we are too. She […]

August 30, 2014 administrator Annabelle's Progress Comments (0) Details
Tags: ANNABELLE'S MONTHLY UPDATES, ANNABELLE'S PROGRESS, BABY FOOD, BABY WITH DOWN SYNDROME, DOWN SYNDROME, FEEDINGFEEDING THERAPY, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, ORAL PLACEMENT, Oral Placement Therapy, ORAL-MOTOR, SPEECH THERAPY AT HOMESTRAW DRINKING, STRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW KIT, talk tools, TALKTOOLS, TALKTOOLS CLIENT

11 MONTHS: DOING A WONDERFUL JOB AT DRINKING & EATING

We are so proud! Annabelle is 11 months old and is doing a wonderful job. We really have no cause for concerns because she has taken so well to her therapy. She is typically quite happy when we do the exercises with her. I am continuing to do her oral motor exercises 2-3 times a […]

August 1, 2014 administrator Annabelle's Progress Comments (0) Details
Tags: ANNABELLE'S MONTHLY UPDATES, ANNABELLE'S PROGRESS, DOWN SYNDROME, DRINKING, FEEDING, FEEDING SKILLS, FEEDING THERAPY, MOUTH POSTURE, ORAL MOTOR EXERCISES, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, ORAL PLACEMENT, Oral Placement Therapy, ORAL-MOTORSTRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW KIT, talk tools, TALKTOOLS, TONGUE RETRACTION, TONGUE THRUST

11 MONTHS: DOING A WONDERFUL JOB AT DRINKING & EATING

We are so proud! Annabelle is 11 months old and is doing a wonderful job. We really have no cause for concerns because she has taken so well to her therapy. She is typically quite happy when we do the exercises with her. I am continuing to do her oral motor exercises 2-3 times a […]

August 1, 2014 administrator Annabelle's Progress Comments (0) Details
Tags: ANNABELLE'S MONTHLY UPDATES, ANNABELLE'S PROGRESS, DOWN SYNDROME, DRINKING, FEEDING, FEEDING SKILLS, FEEDING THERAPY, MOUTH POSTURE, ORAL MOTOR EXERCISES, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, ORAL PLACEMENT, Oral Placement Therapy, ORAL-MOTORSTRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW KIT, talk tools, TALKTOOLS, TONGUE RETRACTION, TONGUE THRUST

Ask a Therapist: OPT with Adult Suffering from MSA

Hi! I am a trained speech-language pathologist, working in Sweden. I have taken part of the video-based course in the OPT-method and have very positive experiences from using the program with my former clients in a children’s rehabilitation center. Now I work with elderly patients, primarily suffering from stroke but also with a wide spectra […]

August 5, 2013 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ADULT, ADULT CLIENT, ADULT PATIENT, AIRFLOW, ASK A THERAPIST, BITE TUBE SET, BITE TUBES, CHEWY TUBES, DEGENERATIVE DISEASEDYSARTHRIA, DYSPHAGIA, HORN BLOWING, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN KIT, HORN THERAPY, LEE SILVERMAN-METHOD, MSA, OPTORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY, PARKINSON, PARKINSONS, SPEECH THERAPY, STRAW DRINKING, STRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW KIT, STRAW THERAPYSTROKE RECOVERY

Ask a Therapist: Frontal Lisp

Hi, I am an SLP in an elementary school in Virginia. I have been recently viewing your course A Three-Part Treatment Plan for Oral Placement Therapy. I have found your information to be extremely fascinating and, although I have 2 more hours, I have learned so much through your training. I do have a question. I […]

July 22, 2013 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: /S/, ASK A THERAPIST, BUBBLE BLOWING, BUBBLE HIERARCHY, BUBBLE KIT, BUBBLE PROGRAM, BUBBLE THERAPY, FRONTAL LISPHORN HIERARCHY, HORN PROGRAM, HORN THERAPY, JAW ASSESSMENT, JAW PLACEMENT, SCHOOL BASED SLP, SCHOOL SLPSCHOOL THERAPIST, SPEECH SOUND PRODUCTION, STRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW KIT, STRAW PROGRAM, TONGUE POSITION, TONGUE RETRACTIONWHITNEY PIMENTEL

Ask A Therapist: Developmental Delay & Cerebral Palsy

Hi, I have two clients that I need assistance with. The first little girl is 5 years old and has developmental delay.  She is mostly non-verbal and communicates using Makaton.  We have used various bits of TalkTools equipment, combined with speech sound work (discrimination and encouragement to imitate single sounds).  So far we have worked through […]

March 27, 2013 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: APRAXIA, APRAXIA KIT, APRAXIA PROGRAM, ASK A THERAPIST, BUBBLE HIERARCHY, BUBBLE KIT, BUBBLE THERAPY, BUBBLE TUBECEREBRAL PALSY, DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY, HORN BLOWING, HORN KIT, JAW CLOSURE TUBES, LIP CLOSURE, LIP ROUNDING, LORI OVERLANDMAKATON, Oral Placement Therapy, RENEE ROY HILL, ROBYN MERKEL-WALSH, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SOUND PRODUCTIONSPEECH SOUND PRODUCTION, STRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW KIT, TONGUE DEPRESSOR, TONGUE RETRACTION, VOCALIZATION, VOWEL PRODUCTIONVOWEL SOUND

Ask A Therapist: Tongue Placement

Hi, I am hoping you can offer a suggestion. I am an SLP and see a 2 YO child who began sucking on his tongue and had a forward tongue posture before I started seeing him. Once I started working with him I had the family switch to straws only and eliminated the sippy cup. […]

March 11, 2013 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ASK A THERAPIST, BUBBLE KIT, CHEWING HIERARCHY, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN KIT, HORN PROGRAM, HORN THERAPYORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY, ROBYN MERKEL-WALSH, SIPPY CUP, SPEECH PRODUCTION, SPEECH SOUND PRODUCTION, STRAW DRINKINGSTRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW KIT, STRAW PROGRAM, STRAW THERAPY, TONGUE, TONGUE MOVEMENT, TONGUE PLACEMENTTONGUE PROTRUSION, TONGUE SUCKING, TONGUE TIE