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Course Overview
This is a two-day, hands-on intensive workshop.
Participants will learn compensatory hands-on techniques
for tonic bite, slow oral transit, tongue thrust, and gag. The
participants will practice over 50 specific intervention
strategies for improving facial muscle function for eating
and speech. Additional topics of discussion may include:
goal writing, diet texture progression, tube to oral issues,
adaptive mealtime utensils, oral hygiene issues, medication
administration issues, oral function for individuals with
trachs, facilitating improved articulation through oral motor
techniques, research issues, videofluroscopy issues for
motorically involved individuals, and additional topics of
importance as determined by the participants.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion Participants will be able to:
1) Demonstrate assessment battery for determining orofacial
movement patterns using the Beckman protocol.
2) Demonstrate compensatory handling techniques.
3) Demonstrate oral motor interventions and
treatment techniques.
4) Recognize how to screen for potential referral candidates.
5) Identify the results of the techniques discussed.
Preparation:
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