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Success Story: Josh & Kelly

Teen Cerebral Palsy Feeding Therapy: How OPT Improved Josh’s Life Home › Blog › Success Story: Josh & Kelly Success Story Teen Cerebral Palsy Feeding Therapy: How OPT Improved Josh’s Life For adolescents with cerebral palsy, feeding challenges can affect both safety and independence. However, teen cerebral palsy feeding therapy that uses oral placement therapy […]

March 27, 2018 administrator Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: ANDERSON-SMITH SPEECH THERAPY, CEREBRAL PALSY, DROOLING, KELLY, STRAW THERAPY, VANESSA ANDERSON-SMITH

Sharing the Gift of TalkTools with Those Living on Roatan, Honduras

TalkTools Honduras OPT Outreach: Serving Roatan Children Home › Blog › TalkTools Honduras OPT Outreach: Serving Roatan Children Global Outreach TalkTools OPT Outreach: Transforming Lives in Honduras TalkTools Honduras OPT outreach reached CATTLEYA school in Roatan when Kerry Tichi, MS CCC/SLP, used a TalkTools donation to assess, train, and equip over 30 children with disabilities. […]

March 20, 2017 administrator Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: CATTLEYA, DOWN SYNDROME, FEEDING THERAPY, HONDURAS, HORN HIERARCHY, HORN THERAPY, KERRY TICHI, OPT, OPT ASSESSMENTORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY, ROATAN, SPECIAL NEEDS, SPEECH THERAPY, STRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW THERAPY, TALKTOOLS DONATIONTHERAPY ASSESSMENT, THERAPY SUCCESS, THIRD WORLD

Dashiell Wins the Award for Self-Advocacy

Down Syndrome Self-Advocacy: Dashiell & TalkTools Home › Blog › Dashiell Wins the Award for Self-Advocacy Success Story Dashiell Wins the Award for Self-Advocacy How nearly a decade of TalkTools OPT helped Dashiell’s Down syndrome self-advocacy journey — from 5 months old to emceeing an event for 600 people. TT Dashiell’s Parents TalkTools Blog November […]

November 4, 2014 administrator Success Stories Comments (0) Details
Tags: BITE BLOCKS, BUTTON PULL, DOWN SYNDROME, DOWN SYNDROME CLASS, DOWN SYNDROME COURSE, FEEDING THERAPY, JAW EXERCISERLORI OVERLAND, MUSCLE TONE, OPT, ORAL HABITS, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, Oral Placement Therapy, SPEECH THERAPYSTRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW PROGRAM, STRAW THERAPY, SUCCESS STORIES, TONGUE DEPRESSOR

Ask A Therapist: Straws & Tongue Placement

Hi Sara, I have taken your Oral Placement course and you currently have devised a plan regarding this program for my son Cole. I have a question however it is regarding something I am seeing in treatment (I am an OT) when using the straw program. I have a patient who has down syndrome, 6 months ago could […]

August 6, 2014 administrator Ask A Therapist Comments (0) Details
Tags: ASK A THERAPIST, BITE STRAWS, CHEEK CUEING, DOWN SYNDROME, FEEDING, FEEDING THERAPY, ORAL MOTOR THERAPY, ORAL PLACEMENTORAL PLACEMENT THERAPY, ORAL-MOTOR, SARA ROSENFELD-JOHNSON, SINGLE SIP, STRAW DRINKING, STRAW HIERARCHY, STRAW KITSTRAW PROGRAM, STRAW THERAPY, SUCKLE PATTERN, TONGUE PROTRUSION, TONGUE RETRACTION

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