Level 1A Course Description
See how 60+ fun-to-use therapy exercises can be used to improve phonation, resonation, and speech clarity. Interactive, hands-on demonstrations will focus on therapeutically sound techniques that develop the oral muscle placement needed for improving speech clarity: abdomen, velum, jaw, lips and tongue dissociation and grading. Your child and adult clients will actually want to do them because OPT exercises are fun and working effectively!
Real case video clips will be used to illustrate Oral Placement Therapy exercises!
Level 1A Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:
1. Understand Oral Placement/ Feeding/ Speech problems based on muscle system deficits;
2. Integrate hierarchies for oral motor Dissociation and Grading (Jaw-Lips-Tongue);
3. Learn therapeutic intervention strategies that address physiological and muscle-based speech disorders;
4. Appropriately apply almost 60+ new Oral Placement Therapy techniques into your therapy;
5. Learn to use Oral Placement techniques to improve individual feeding, speech clarity and production.