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Mouth Stuffing & Food Pocketing(Post)
Question: How can I keep my son from stuffing his mouth with food, not properly chewing, then getting choked when he swallows? He is 5 years old and Autistic. Do you have any ide ...
Oral Motor Staples for Babies Who Have Down Syndrome(Post)Question: Hello! About 1 week ago my husband and I got a confirmed diagnosis of Down syndrome for our upcoming baby girl. I want to help my little flower as much as possible an ...
An Overview of the Z-Vibe Tips(Post)ARK's Z-Vibe and Z-Grabber offer a vast range of possibilities for tactile learning and oral sensory motor stimulation. Lots of different optional tip attachments are available for these tools ...
10 Favorite Z-Vibe Tips for Oral Motor Therapy(Post)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 wo ...
Feeding Problems - When It's Psychological(Post)Question: I've read your Food Refusal article, that feeding problems are usually related to oral motor or sensory problems. But can it be psychological? I’ve searche ...
What Do I Look for in an Oral Motor / Feeding Assessment?(Post)What do I look for when I’m doing an oral motor / feeding assessment? It's never a cookie-cutter check list. It always depends on the individual and their skills and goal ...
Easy Oral Motor Exercises to Try - Today!(Post)Oral motor therapy works on the oral skills necessary for proper speech and feeding development. These skills include: awareness, strength, coordination, movement, and endurance of the lips, ch ...
5 Ways to Easily Assess Tongue-Ties Using ONE Simple Tool(Post)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 ...
Z-Vibe® Benefits, Background, & FAQs(Post)Why Does the Z-Vibe Work? Most of us are either visual or auditory learners. But when these two senses are not enough, you may need to physically direct the articulators for certain speech and feedin ...
Button Pull Lip Closure Activity(Post)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 t ...
DIY "Birthday Cake" Fine Motor Activity(Post)The best therapy exercises are the ones where the child doesn't know it's an exercise, which is why every pediatric speech and occupational therapist's "bag of tricks" is mostly full of toys ...
Pre-Feeding Oral Motor Exercises with SLP Angeliki Xygka(Post)Are you interested in learning more about feeding therapy skills? You've come to the right place! Below is the video and transcript from a live webinar we hosted featuring Speech Languag ...