DVD : Jaw Stability & Speech Clarity

Product Description

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Learn a multi-sensory approach that when used with traditional therapy can bring greater results for clients with muscle-based feeding and/or speech clarity disorders.

Run time is 2 hours.

Course Description

This program was created to provide step-by-step techniques to diagnose and treat jaw instability and weakness.

Clients who present with jaw weakness or instability secondary to diagnoses including Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, post-CVA, apraxia, dyspraxia, autism, Parkinson’s disease, PDD, inter-dental or lateral lisp, multiple articulation disorder or any of the numerous syndromes characterized by hypo-tonicity or muscle weakness can benefit from the exercises presented here.

This multi-sensory approach, used with traditional therapy, can bring greater results for clients with muscle-based feeding and/or speech clarity disorders. This is the crucial element of therapy that has been missing from our treatment of these clients. You’ll learn how to evaluate jaw stability and be given scenarios that require jaw exercise therapy.

Learning Outcomes

• Explain the difference between normal and abnormal jaw movement.
• Assess jaw instability as related to speech clarity.
• Describe how to implement the feeding program and non-food jaw activities.
• Demonstrate how to transition the learned jaw movement into functional movement for speech production. 

The “Jaw” course is an interactive, hands-on workshop. When taking this course as a self-study it is encouraged that you follow along with all of the activities.

Included

Jaw Grading Bite Blocks Red and Assessment & Treatment of the Jaw Book

Instructor – Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson, MS, CCC-SLP

Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson is an internationally known speaker on the subject of Oral Placement Therapy (OPT). She specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of muscle-based disorders as related to speech clarity and feeding issues. In 1995, Sara founded TalkTools® as a speakers bureau and source for Oral Placement Therapy (OPT) and therapy tools. She has held seminars throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Europe, Australia, Africa, Latin America and Asia. Over the past 40 years, she has worked in public schools, hospitals, private practice and child development programs. Ms. Rosenfeld-Johnson is the author of Oral Placement Therapy for Speech Clarity and Feeding, Assessment and Treatment of the Jaw,OPT for /s/ and /z/, A Therapist’s Guide to Rehabilitative Feeding and Speech Techniques for Teens and Adults,The HOMEWORK Book, the Drooling Remediation Program, and many other educational materials.