Feeding Therapy -> Oral Motor Skills

Oral Motor Skills

Oral motor skills include awareness, strength, co-ordination, movement and endurance of the mouth; jaw, tongue, cheeks and lips. The ability to move oral structures appropriately for various feeding steps.

Minor focus areas

Reference links

  • A Little PEP Goes a Long Way In the Treatment of Pediatric Feeding Disorders 2
    pubs.asha.org     Author: Teresa Boggs and Neina Ferguson - Feeding disorder in young children is a growing concern, particularly feeding challenges with sensory and/or behavioral underpinning. These feeding disorders are characterized by food refusal, anxiety when presented with novel foods, failure to advance to textured foods, and inappropriate mealtime behaviors. The Positive Eating Program (PEP) was developed to remediate feeding disorders by providing rich experiences in food vocabulary, positive sensory nonfood and food activities, and structured and predictable through trials
  • Activities to Improve Oral Motor Skills 0
    www.nhsaaa.net     Author: NHS Ayrshire & Arran - This booklet is to give you ideas and activities to help support your child / young person to improve the awareness and co-ordination of their oral motor skills. Oral motor skills include awareness, strength, co-ordination, movement and endurance of the mouth; jaw, tongue, cheeks and lips. All references to child or children mean either a child or young person.

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Related Disorder(s)

  • Feeding disorders - A feeding disorder, in infancy or early childhood, is a child's refusal to eat certain food groups, textures, solids or liquids for a period of at least one month, which causes the child to not gain enough weight, grow naturally or cause any developmental delays.
  • Neurological Conditions - Types of neurological conditions may include: Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementias, Brain Cancer, Epilepsy and Other Seizure Disorders, Mental Disorders, Parkinson’s and Other Movement Disorders, and Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA).

Goal Bank

  • Client will demonstrate a correct swallow pattern with salvia/liquids with 80% accuracy of X opportunities presented in order to improve a daily living skill. 1

Organizations

Organizations who selected this major focus area as their top area of expertise.

  • Strive Therapies KC, LLC

    Individual account

    Individual
    1 employee

    Strive Therapies KC is a mobile and virtual speech-language pathology clinic that provides pediatric speech and swallowing therapy services. Our virtual clinic serves clients in Kansas and Missouri while our mobile clinic provides in-person services centered around the Northland region of Kansas City. We also provide limited adult-based services for vocal cord dysfunction / inducible laryngeal obstruction, voice, fluency, and accent modification.

Therapists

Therapists who selected this major focus area as their top area of expertise.

  • Caitlin Burke

    Caitlin Burke

    Owner Billing Administration Clinician CCC-SLP

    Caitlin is an ASHA-certified speech-language pathologist with 10 years of experience working with...

    • Radiant Moments Pediatric Therapy, PLLC Radiant Moments Pediatric Therapy, PLLC