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Oral Motor Speech Exercises for

Speech & Swallowing

S.Thadsaieni
Speech and Language Therapist
Goal of Oral Motor Therapy
• To increase awareness of the oral motor mechanism
• To strengthen tongue, lips and cheeks
• To improve speech sound production to maximize intelligibility • To improve the
oral structure for swallowing

Facial Muscles
• Elevate upper lip
• Retract/draw corner of mouth up and back
• Depress and retract lower lip
• Close mouth
• Pucker lips
• Flatten cheek
• Vital for the production of speech sound
Tongue Muscles
• Elevate the back of the tongue •
Retract/protrude and depress tongue •
Widen tongue
• Raise the tongue tip
• Essential for Speech Production
Facilitating Speech Strategies

Conversational Recast
• Most powerful strategy
• where teachers or parents repeat what the child said with a good
model (not a correction)
• e.g., the child says “I need a ‘wed’ pen.” You say, “Oh, a red pen.” • This also is
an effective strategy for grammatical structures
Tactile/Visual Cues

• Visual cues to pair with sounds (consistent cues given by teacher,


family and possibly peers).
For example, running finger down the arm when
producing /s/.
Taking responsibility for your child’s errors
• If you cannot understand what the child says, say “I need help. Please
help me understand
• Take the communicative burden off of your child
Wait
• Give child more time to respond
• At least 5 seconds
Your mouth is a house

• Increases awareness of the oral motor mechanism


• Strengthens lips, tongue and cheeks
Simon

• Helps teach tongue placement for different speech sounds (front vs. back sounds)
• Child can manipulate tongue and imitate tongue movements
Use of mirror

• To imitate tongue movement


• View if moving tongue, lips in the desired position
Blowing Exercise

• Helps elevate the tongue


• Helps retract the tongue
Examples
• Whistles
• Bubbles
• Cotton Balls
• Ping pong ball
Tongue clicks/slurps

• Helps elevate tongue • Helps strengthen tongue


Kisses

Increases lip closure


Increases tongue retraction
Have child protrude lips and smack
Have child line up stuffed animals and kiss them all goodnight.
Straw Drinking

• Improves tongue retraction


• The thicker the fluid, the stronger they have to suck • Straw blowing

Ice pop/Lollipop
• To minimize protrusion and increase tongue elevation.
• Use tongue tip to lick in an upward motion.
• Make sure they don’t pull their heads back, or that their hand does not move.

Tongue Depressor/Index Cards


• Strengthens lip strength and minimizes protrusion.
• Have child hold index card between lips until they shake.
• Lips strengthen as you stack more index cards/tongue depressors • Check cards-if
they are wet, they are protruding their tongues-this is incorrect.

Gargling- improves /h, g, k/


• Tilt head back with a small
amount of water/saliva. •
Have child gargle.
• Count up to 10.
Resources:

Boshart, C.A. 1999. Oral


Illustrations and Reference
Guide. Speech Dynamics
McKissick, G., Palacios, M., Rodriguez, E., Segura. L. 2000. Spanish
Articulation/Phonology Program.
Rosenfeld-Johnson, S. A Three-Part Treatment Plan for Oral-Motor
Therapy

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