| Description |
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.
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