Major focus area

Feeding Therapy -> Swallowing

Short description

Straw hierarchy program is an intervention utilizing gradated straws to address specific components of oral movement for feeding and swallowing (Rosenfeld-Johnson, 1999).

Long description

Straw hierarchy program is an intervention utilizing gradated straws to address specific components of oral movement for feeding and swallowing. Straw are used to target lip rounding, insufficient tongue base retraction, and velo-pharyngeal insufficiency (Rosenfeld-Johnson, 1999).