Learn how oral hyposensitivity affects speech production and open-mouth posture in children. Discover treatment strategies using oral placement therapy tools and orofacial myofunctional techniques from TalkTools®.
Ask a Therapist: Sensory Processing Assistance with a Down Syndrome Client
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Ask a Therapist: SMILE Protocol for Severe Diagnoses
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Success Story: Maddox
Maddox’s Down Syndrome OPT Home Practice Success Home › Blog › Success Story: Maddox Success Story Success Story: Maddox Maddox’s parents share how committing to 4-6 daily TalkTools OPT sessions from 20 to 40 months transformed their daughter with Down syndrome from 150 signs to full sentences at preschool. TT TalkTools TalkTools Blog August 24, […]
Ask A Therapist: Biting & Feeding Improvement
Hi and good morning! I am writing from Israel. I participated in your course last November in Jerusalem and, thank goodness, have been using many of your techniques to assist my clients with success. I’ve been seeing Charlie (3.5 years old; developmental and cognitive delays with seizures) since mid-February. He presents as both hyper- and […]
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 […]
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 […]
6 MONTHS: EATING PUREED FOODS
In continuation of her progress at 6 months, we introduced pureed foods to Belle. The trick was getting her used to a flattened spoon. We had her get the puree off the spoon and keep it in her mouth and then swallow. She did a good job. We are teaching Belle to chew and swallow […]
Ask A Therapist: Tongue Thrust Therapy versus Appliance Use
Hello, I am a speech language pathologist who has attended one of your presentations. I see an 8 year old girl who has a tongue thrust. She has had a habit breaker that she has been wearing for a few years (the device that she wears on her front teeth and it stops the tongue […]