Guest guest Posted January 10, 2002 Report Share Posted January 10, 2002 In a message dated 1/10/2002 11:51:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, lisagarcia@... writes: > > > Connie, > I'm sorry, I meant to ask u one more thing - do u have any advice on > tongue protrusion? (is that what i call it?!) > Thanks, > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Sorry, this is so long!!! We did most of what Kym mentioned, too. Does your daughter have a speech therapist or OT? If so, the therapists will have lots of ideas for you. We did some oral motor work with both therapists, based on Sara Rosenfeld-¹s Talk Tools http://www.talktools.net/ and Debra Beckman¹s Oral Motor Therapy. http://www.beckmanoralmotor.com There¹s lots of good information at both of the websites and they both offer products as well as workshops and books outlining their programs. Speech and oral motor issues (esp feeding issues) are closely related, so if you don¹t have an SLP for your daughter, I would look into getting one. My daughter¹s OT started services right about the time I transitioned her to pureed foods, so we started right away with an oral motor plan - even though I didn¹t realize it at the time. We first fed her with a small bulb syringe, alternating sides of the mouth (close to the gums), so that she would have to reach her tongue way over to eat. She was very motivated by the food (still is!) and did it without a problem. When she was teething we would given her frozen strips of bagel to chew on, again alternating from one side to another. We also used ³crunchy meltables² such as graham cracker sticks, Pirate Booty snacks, etc. to get her used to a stiffer texture. I fed her everything I could, from avocados to papaya and lots of lots of different foods and textures, even some mildly spicy foods. It may be a coincidence, but Elise eats almost everything to this day. There¹s only a very few foods that she won¹t touch and she¹s 8. Her speech is pretty good and I attribute it in large part because of the feeding steps/therapy we took as well as the different oral motor tools such as nubby spoons, Z vibe, bite blocks, etc. I went to the NDSC conf when she was 2 and went to the workshop headed by an SLP from Talk Tools. It was very helpful and I learned how important it is to have good feet placement while eating. I ended up buying my daughter a Tripp Trapp chair from Stokke (they sell them now at Toys R Us, among other places). It was $200+ but a very good investment since it will last her until she weighs 150 lbs. http://www.stokke.com/en-us/ My daughter has extremely low tone and had a weak jaw, so we worked in oral motor exercises whenever we could. She is finally eating sandwiches now! And bagels, muffins, etc. Yea!!! Lunch making will be so much easier now! I hope this helps, Colleen Mom to Elise, 8.5 On 7/29/10 6:08 PM, " kym mac " <mymacfamily@...> wrote: > > > > > > When working with as a little one, these are some things we did. Try > drinking from a straw, blowing bubbles, blowing whistles, party > blowers...anything that you have to move the tongue back to do. If you are > using sippy cups, toss them. There are special cups that minimize spilling, > but don't promote tongue thrust like most sippy cups. > Take care, > Kym > > Tongue Protrusion > >> > Hi Our daughter is 15 months and have been doing excersies to work on her >> > tongue protrusion. I just wanted to see what other parents of young and >> > older children are doing to help work/worke on minimizing protrusion and >> > excersies you feel that have been successful >> > >> > thanks >> > Alison >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------ >> > >> > Click reply to all for messages to go to the list. Just hit reply for >> > messages to go to the sender of the message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 We tapped lightly on the tip of the tongue if we saw it paired with a gentle admonishment to keep it in. Our daughter stopped by two or three years and we only see her tongue when she sticks it out at her brother..and blows him a raspberry. (different issue. ; )) Judi From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Alisonc Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 3:12 PM Subject: Tongue Protrusion Hi Our daughter is 15 months and have been doing excersies to work on her tongue protrusion. I just wanted to see what other parents of young and older children are doing to help work/worke on minimizing protrusion and excersies you feel that have been successful thanks Alison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 Same as , here, in addition to the straws, bubbles, etc. Bonnie Mom to Ana (almost 18 yrs w/ds) --- El vie 30-jul-10, Hancock <Fancymom@...> escribió: De: Hancock <Fancymom@...> Asunto: Re: Tongue Protrusion A: , " Gem Bordages " <gem.bordages@...> Fecha: viernes, 30 de julio de 2010, 2:15  I just kept pushing her tongue back in when she was an infant.. and playing with her tongue...no problems since then.. karen Re: Tongue Protrusion >I just kept reminding my (36, DS) to keep her tongue in her mouth >and > breathe through her nose. Not much help when dealing with an infant, > though. > > granny > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Alisonc <Alison.Torrey@...> wrote: > >> >> >> Hi Our daughter is 15 months and have been doing excersies to work on her >> tongue protrusion. I just wanted to see what other parents of young and >> older children are doing to help work/worke on minimizing protrusion and >> excersies you feel that have been successful >> >> thanks >> Alison >> >> >> > > > > -- > Not for ourselves but for the whole world we were born > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 Nic did tyhis when he was young too. Wew just pushed his tongue back in and said, " no tongue " . One of his therapists suggested it and eventually he learned to keep it in his mouth. There are some case where the roof of their mouth is flatter which doesn't allow enough room to hold the tongue. Some people think they have large tongues but it's actually that their mouths are too small. Di From: Alison.Torrey@... Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:12:18 +0000 Subject: Tongue Protrusion Hi Our daughter is 15 months and have been doing excersies to work on her tongue protrusion. I just wanted to see what other parents of young and older children are doing to help work/worke on minimizing protrusion and excersies you feel that have been successful thanks Alison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 Di.. We did this with Ben too. Constantly touching his tongue and saying " no tongue " or something and he eventually kept it in. It is a tedious thing sometimes but it did eventually work as we kept up with it. We started when he was young and now that he is older there are no issues with the tongue. M. > alison.torrey@...; > From: munchkin625@... > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:16:59 -0400 > Subject: RE: Tongue Protrusion > > > Nic did tyhis when he was young too. Wew just pushed his tongue back in and said, " no tongue " . One of his therapists suggested it and eventually he learned to keep it in his mouth. There are some case where > the roof of their mouth is flatter which doesn't allow enough room to hold the tongue. Some people think they have large tongues but it's actually that their mouths are too small. > Di > > > > From: Alison.Torrey@... > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:12:18 +0000 > Subject: Tongue Protrusion > > > > > > > Hi Our daughter is 15 months and have been doing excersies to work on her tongue protrusion. I just wanted to see what other parents of young and older children are doing to help work/worke on minimizing protrusion and excersies you feel that have been successful > > thanks > Alison > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Hi, Thanks for the ideas we do have a speech therapist that has given us some good ideas to do with the nuk brush and chew tube and we just had a evaluation with lori overland with talk tools and got some good ideas from her working with sensory excersises and massages and allot of biting and chewing! We were just looking to see what has worked for other parents. thanks for all the ideas! Alison Torrey Service Engineering Specialist PaeTec PH: 919-719-1374 Email: Alison.Torrey@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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