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Are you looking for a well-rounded set of  Z-Vibe® tips for your oral motor therapy exercises?  The  Tip Kit is a collection of 10 versatile Z-Vibe tips that can be used to work on a variety of oral motor therapy goals from lip closure to biting and chewing to jaw grading to tongue lateralization and more. This article breaks down the kit to explore what makes each tip a gr …

In this webinar, Occupational Therapist Katie Zelinski, MS, OTR/L provides a background on self-regulation, co-regulation, and her favorite tips and tools for keeping the sensory system in a "just right" state. Hannah: Hi everyone! My name is Hannah and we are going to be learning about sensory strategies to help calm and self-regulate from Occupational Therapist Katie Zelinski.  …

Below is the video and transcript from a live webinar we hosted featuring Speech Language Pathologist and Orofacial Myologist Anna Housman. In this webinar, Anna will be providing a quick definition of orofacial myofunctional disorders (OMDs), who works in OMDs, and what is targeted in the realm of speech language pathology. She'll also provide insight into her favorite ARK tools for …

  Below is the video and transcript from a live webinar we hosted featuring Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) Angeliki Xygka. In this webinar, Angeliki will be presenting specific exercises on how to use ARK tools to facilitate the production and articulation of certain phonemes, including bilabial (p, b), dental (f, v, θ, δ), alveolar (t, d, s, l, n), palatal (r), and velar …