Oral Motor Techniques
In Articulation and Phonological Therapy
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Learn how to facilitate jaw, lip, and tongue movements, and how to normalize client oral-tactile sensitivity. This is the original oral-motor resource.
book details
This course text is highly detailed, well-organized, and filled to the brim with step-by-step therapy strategies. Learn why and how to do basic oral-motor therapy. Oral-Motor Techniques was named Top Ten by the Library of Speech and Language Pathology in 2002, and was SuperDuper's best-selling oral-motor book in 2001.
Oral-Motor Therapy being used as supplemental reading material in graduate courses on articulation and motor speech disorders. Appropriate for all ages.
This book clearly explains:
- Infant developmental stages
- Jaw facilitation activities
- Tactile sensitivity
- Lip retraction and how to get tongue/lateral margin elevation
- How to stimulate /l/, /k/, /g/, /r/, and /s/
- How to reduce drooling and treat apraxia.
chapters
- Introduction to Oral-Motor Therapy
- Principles of Movements
- The Tactile and Proprioceptive Systems
- The Jaw: Assessment and Treatment
- The Lips: Assessment and Treatment
- The Tongue: Assessment and Treatment
- Putting It All Together for Specific Error
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feedback
"I compliment you on your approach to therapy, it makes a lot of sense! I especially like the Oral Motor Techniques resource. I have recommended it to many SLP's."
Peggy Earnest, SLP
"The drawings in your book are wonderfully straightforward and easy-to-understand."
Judy Butler, ASHA Fluency Specialist
"Your tips are wonderful! The pictures of the tongue and how it should look during /r/ production are priceless!"
Cathy, SLP
