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Lip closure - being able to create and maintain a seal with your lips - is a fundamental oral motor skill for successful speech and feeding development.   For feeding, it's how we do things such as drink from a straw, remove food off of a spoon, keep food in our mouths while we chew, keep saliva in the mouth at rest (which prevents drooling), etc.  For speech, it's how we produ …

I always love adding new tools to my oral motor toolbox, and the Bite Blocks are no exception.  These handy oral motor tools come in two different versions, both of which can be used to work on jaw grading and stability:   1.   Bite Blocks - a standalone non-vibratory set, as pictured below.  This version is nice when you don't need vibration.  Because each …

This wonderful guest blog comes to us from Elizabeth at This Little Home of Mine. When our oldest daughter was almost five months old, we received confirmation that Down Syndrome would be part of her story. In this post, we're excited to be partnering with ARK Therapeutic to share some of the tools that have accompanied us along the way. After learning of our daughter's diagnosis, I immedia …

This helpful guest blog post is courtesy of Susannah Silvia, MCD, CCC-SLP. The term tongue-tie has been thrown around a lot lately in homes and in therapy clinics.  With all the different names, effects, and treatments, speech-language pathologists and parents are often left confused in their own role of diagnosing. . Tongue-tie, or ankyloglossia to the medical field, is not a newly di …