Straws: Fun & Functional

SKU: 3734-NS
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A girl using a purple spiral straw to drink from a glass, with an inset of a woman smiling.
A child with a yellow floral shirt uses a purple spiral straw to drink from a jar, assisted by an adult.
A girl using a purple spiral straw to drink from a glass, with an inset of a woman smiling.
A child with a yellow floral shirt uses a purple spiral straw to drink from a jar, assisted by an adult.

Straws: Fun & Functional

SKU: 3734-NS
heart icon 341
heart icon CEUs 0.1
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Icon Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson, MS, CCC-SLP

Event Information

Course Description

TalkTools’ innovative straw therapy is captured on this informative one-hour video.

Learn how unique straw hierarchy techniques improve tongue retraction, lip rounding, feeding skills and the development of standard speech production.

Learning Outcomes

The participant will be able to apply hierarchical concepts in the context of straw therapy.

  • The participant will be able to list at least 3 ways that straws can be used to improve speech clarity.
  • The participant will be able to explain how straws can be used to correct a tongue thrust.
  • The participant will be able to use the straw hierarchy to reduce drooling.

The "Straws" course is an interactive, hands-on presentation. When taking this course as a self-study it is encouraged that you follow along with all of the activities.

E-Learning Details

Instructor Details and Financial Disclosure 

  • TalkTools founder, Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson, MS, CCC-SLP bio

Registration Fees

  • Online  for 1 learner -- ACCESS TO ONLINE COURSE
  • Group Rate for 5 learners
    • ACCESS TO ONLINE COURSE for 5 learners

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CEUs

Content Disclosure: This presentation will focus on treatment methods related to the use of TalkTools® resources. Other similar treatment approaches will receive limited or no coverage during this lecture.

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Amanda Avalos

Great course

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Kim Gillis

THANKS for the clear instruction!

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Iqrah yahya

Hope that this will be a great adjunct to a myofunctional therapy program

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Megan Greenwell

I'd love to take the OPT Levels course

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Tatiana Gorsky

This course provides specific grading criteria for skills needed in efficient feeding.

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Paolina Ivanova

I think this knowledge will help me a lot in my work.

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Devarae Loomis

Great course! Thank you

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Deborah Harris

Excellent!

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Emily Magee

This was helpful for me as an OT to learn about how the tongue affects drinking through straw and with ability to create certain speech sounds

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Boileau Julie

Excellent

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Martina Kukumbergova

Thank you for clear explanation of why and how doing a straw hierarchy.

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Abigail Meeks

This was an excellent course, and it definitely helped me understand how to best implement straw hierarchy therapy with many of my clients. I will definitely be continuing with more courses in oral placement therapy.

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Claire Moser

I love learning from Sara. She is the best presenter. I hope to be the therapist she is one day.

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Autumn Marshall

This was a very helpful course in learning how to better use the straw program

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Ivona
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I learned so much in little time and I would like to thank you for that. Personally, I would like if there was more information about population that this tools can be done and how to incorporate excercises with speech exercises.

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Jacqueline Mueller

I found this training interesting. I would have enjoyed seeing the therapy completed when working with feeding kids and speech examples (more examples) to see how therapy can be implemented in session.

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Caroline Hummer-Dash

The TalkTools Straw Hierarchy course is a game-changer—clear, practical, and incredibly effective in building oral-motor skills step by step. A must-have tool for any therapist working on speech and feeding!

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Paige Jones

Excited to try this out!

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Kristi Orlando

Excited to use this with my clients! I like how fun this program is for kids and it looks like a great way to teach tongue retraction.

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Inbal Bleich Remer

interesting approach

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Kimberly Chavez

Good course!

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Thasni Jahan K

It was an enriching learning experience

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Jill Conner

Very helpful. Feel that this will give me more tools in my articulation/oral motor toolbox

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Eleni Charitou

Very Good

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Valerie Gerrits

Very helpful for getting started

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stacy pulley

excellent as always

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Samruddhi Gaikwad

Thank You ! course is easy to understand and follow

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Carrie Henry

Short, sweet and to the point. I like how accessible the straw hierarchy is in terms of cost and ease of training.

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Ana Sanchez

very informative

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Ashli Hubler

great information! can't wait to use this program!

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Caryn Goodman

Informative course, easy to follow

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Valerie Mason

Great information! I am excited to take it back into therapy sessions!

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MARYANN SMITH

It was a helpful review of the straw hierarchy.

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Rachel Benson

excellent explanation of hierarchy and what exactly each step is accomplishing regarding tongue/oral structure.