Speech therapy moms

what kind of oral motor exercises does your therapist do with your DC?

Just curious.

Mine tries to get him to hold a tongue depressor between his lips and he doesn't like that.

She also uses a toothette and strokes him tongue which he used to not like but now he is fine with.

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My DS blows bubbles, drinks out of a straw, chews caramels (he hates that! LOL), does body stretches while doing sounds that stretch his mouth in different directions, blows kisses, kisses a mirror, prob a few other things I can't recall...

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My girl is only 3 months so she wears bright purple lipstick so that she can focus on her mouth and watch words. My dd is has severe hearing impairness, just like me. She ended up getting my negative gene I find it amazing that they have this kind of stuff available.

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these are things that he's "graduated " from and some still doing....

yellow & red chewy tubes for biting/jaw strength
toothettes inside cheeks and tongue
the ez vibe thing with different tips
vibrating toys for outside cheeks
tongue depressors to push with his tongue
moving his tongue side to side (never was able to move his tongue at all till last month!) & up and down (can't do yet)
blowing kisses
different strength whisles and party blow things
now he uses different strength vibrating toothbrushes inside his cheeks and tongue to desensitize b/c they are more powerful then the regular speech tools

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yellow, red and white chewy tubes in the beginning
toothettes
a kazoo
straws
toungue depressors (and usually a few tapes together)
bubbles
skittles for the chewiness
a recorder

That's all that I can think of for now. We did also get a kids electric toothbrush because of the vibrations.

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electric toothbrush
twizzlers
jaw massages
bubbles
mirror talk

im sure there is more, its all i can think of right now