Rehabilitative Feeding and Speech Techniques for Teens and Adults - Timed Agenda
8:30AM-12:00pm
- Theories of Oral Placement Therapy (OPT)
- Oral Placement Therapy (OPT): The “why”, “when”
- and “who”
- Activities to Improve Jaw Mobility: Use innovative therapy tools in a hierarchy to improve chewing and develop the jaw heights needed for standard speech clarity
Lunch 12:00PM- 1:00PM
1:00PM-4:00PM
- Activities to Improve Abdominal Grading and Breath
- Support
- Activities to Improve Lip Movements for Feeding and Speech Clarity: Closure, Rounding, Retraction and Lower Lip Dissociation
- Activities to Improve Tongue Movements for Feeding and Speech Clarity: Retraction, Lateralization, Elevation/Depression and Back of Tongue Side Spread for Co-Articulation