Lingraphica’s Communication Apps and practice apps like SmallTalk help people with aphasia improve their language skills and speech practice.
ARK’s Z-Vibe® is a vibratory oral motor tool that can help build oral tone and improve a variety of speech, feeding, and sensory skills. Use it to provide a varied sensory experience and/or to provide targeted tactile cues within the oral cavity.
Recently I’ve heard of mothers who are telling other mothers that they’d better be doing oral motor exercises at home with their s and find SLPs who will do these with their s to help their toddlers learn to speak more clearly.
For those of you who are following the apparently very controversial article “Oral Motor Exercises” and all of the comments, here’s a follow-up I received today from Dr. Lof. Here are his comments specifically related to oral motor exercises as they are used with ren who have been diagnosed with apraxia, and of course, a few of my own …
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Using Oral Motor Exercises to Improve your Speech. Here you will find all the necessary information on oral motor therapy as well as related speech disorders that benefit from oral motor exercises.
Super Duper Publications provides a number of Occupational Therapy resources including fun, engaging materials for fine motor skills, gross motor skills, handwriting, sensory issues, and activities of daily living.
Oral-motor exercises practiced in an efficient manner within the principles of a motor learning model were found to be effective in improving articulation in individuals with dysarthria (McGhee, Cornwell, Addis, & Jarman, 2006).
Wrongly used by most therapists, oral-motor therapy uses a variety of exercises to develop awareness, strength, coordination and mobility of the oral muscles.
«Vol. 2, No. 1. Vol. 3, No. 1 » Oral Motor Institute Volume 2, Monograph No. 2, 9 April 2008 ORAL MOTOR TREATMENT vs. NON-SPEECH ORAL MOTOR EXERCISES
