LEVELS TRAINING PROGRAM: LEVEL 1 COURSE REQUIREMENT
Course Description
This introductory course to OPT (Oral Placement Therapy) is the foundation for TalkTools training and is integrated throughout all of our courses. OPT is a type of oral-motor therapy that targets specific movements needed for speech and feeding. The "3 parts" of OPT are: auditory and visual sensory systems COMBINED WITH tactile -- and proprioceptive -- sensory systems. TalkTools training applies a unique, hierarchical approach to OPT, focused on a measurable, results-driven path for both therapists and clients across all ages and diagnoses with the goal of:
- speech clarity
- improved feeding
- independence
- improved QUALITY OF LIFE
This interactive, hands-on course includes highly motivating activities targeting the abdomen, velum, jaw, lips and tongue. Techniques learned can be readily implemented across many therapy environments -- private practices, hospitals, schools and home.
Learning Outcomes
- Participants will be able to appropriately assess oral placement/feeding/speech problems based on muscle systems.
- Participants will be able to integrate hierarchies for motor dissociation and grading (jaw-lips-tongue).
- Participants will be able to plan programs of therapeutic intervention to address physiological and motor-based speech disorders.
- Participants will be able to apply at least 10 new therapy techniques.
- Participants will be able to properly use oral placement techniques to improve individual speech clarity and production.
Instructor Bio
Frédérique Dumont, MS, CCC-SLP, COM®
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.
TalkTools®️ is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. Provider #: 5059. This virtual course qualifies for 12 contact hours or 1.2 CEUs in the Category of Occupational Therapy Process. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA. Course Level: Intermediate.
Event Information
Course Description |
It is required to attend live to receive credit. Therefore, this offering will not be recorded.
This introductory course to OPT (Oral Placement Therapy) is the foundation for TalkTools training and is integrated throughout all of our courses. OPT is a type of oral-motor therapy that targets specific movements needed for speech and feeding. The "3 parts" of OPT are: auditory and visual sensory systems COMBINED WITH tactile -- and propioceptive -- sensory systems. TalkTools training applies a unique, hierarchical approach to OPT, focused on a measurable, results-driven path for both therapists and clients across all ages and diagnoses with the goal of:
- speech clarity
- improved feeding
- independence
- improved QUALITY OF LIFE
This interactive, hands-on course includes highly motivating activities targeting the abdomen, velum, jaw, lips and tongue. Techniques learned can be readily implemented across many therapy environments -- private practices, hospitals, schools and home.
Course Description |
It is required to attend live to receive credit. Therefore, this offering will not be recorded.
This introductory course to OPT (Oral Placement Therapy) is the foundation for TalkTools training and is integrated throughout all of our courses. OPT is a type of oral-motor therapy that targets specific movements needed for speech and feeding. The "3 parts" of OPT are: auditory and visual sensory systems COMBINED WITH tactile -- and propioceptive -- sensory systems. TalkTools training applies a unique, hierarchical approach to OPT, focused on a measurable, results-driven path for both therapists and clients across all ages and diagnoses with the goal of:
- speech clarity
- improved feeding
- independence
- improved QUALITY OF LIFE
This interactive, hands-on course includes highly motivating activities targeting the abdomen, velum, jaw, lips and tongue. Techniques learned can be readily implemented across many therapy environments -- private practices, hospitals, schools and home.
Learning Outcomes
- Appropriately assess oral placement/feeding/speech problems based on muscle systems.
- Integrate hierarchies for motor dissociation and grading (jaw-lips-tongue).
- Plan programs of therapeutic intervention to address physiological and motor-based speech disorders.
- Apply at least 10 new therapy techniques.
- Properly use oral placement techniques to improve individual speech clarity and production.
Workshop Details
Schedule
Theories of Oral Placement (Muscle-Based) Therapy
Oral Placement Therapy: The “why”, “when” and “who”
Muscle movements necessary for speech clarity emergence or correction
Oral Habits: Prolonged Thumb Sucking, Pacifier Usage, Teeth Grinding & Drooling
Oral Habits: What is the Commonality and How Can They Be Eliminated
Overview of Feeding and How It Effects Speech Clarity
Treatment: Muscle-Based Exercises for Speech Clarity
Activities to Improve Abdominal Grading and Breath Support
Improving Velo-pharyngeal Functioning Using Muscle-Based, OPT Interventions
Jaw Exercises - Stability in the Jaw is Necessary for Mobility in the Lips and Tongue
Lip movements necessary for Speech Clarity
Tongue movements for Speech Clarity
Program Planning: Putting it All Together
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.
TalkTools®️ is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. Provider #: 5059. This virtual course qualifies for 12 contact hours or 1.2 CEUs in the Category of Occupational Therapy Process. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA. Course Level: Intermediate.
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