Re: Drooling/Eating and Drinking Difficulties

[Guest guest]

Hi Deborah. Someone here (I think it was here) once posted that the

super sour sprays (you can buy them at blockbuster and probably

stores like Target) helped her child be more aware of swallowing.

She said that she would spray the sour stuff in her child's mouth

and say " swallow " and then eventually she was able to just say the

word " swallow " to remind her child not to drool. My son doesn't

have problems with drooling or open mouth posture, but his OT uses

the sour sprays to stimulate mouth awareness as part of his oral SI

therapy. We've also tried lemon juice and carbonated drinks for

mouth awareness, and those might help with the drooling too. Good

luck.

>

> Hello, I have a son, who will be 5 years old in November

(06).

> has a severe speech delay and has been diagnosed with oral

> apraxia about a year ago.

> He presents an open mouth posture, tongue trusting (therefore he

has a

> lot of difficulty chewing food), always has his tongue " embracing "

the

> cup when drinking and does not move his tongue to the side. He

also

> drools a lot.

> About a week ago, we placed a tongue crib on him, to try to help

with

> tongue positioning and swallowing paterns. I would like to know

if

> anyone has tried this appliance before and if yes, if they noticed

> results. Also if anyone has tips about eating or drinking

exercises

> that helped their child. We have been in speech therapy

(conventional)

> since he was 2 years old and with an Apraxia specilized therapist

for

> approximatelly 6 months, but I have seen very little results.

Help...

>

[Guest guest]

I have a non verbal 2 year old that has been getting speech/feeding

therapy for over a year now. For her birthday we tried the Baby

Babble video, with her watching it everyday she started copying the

oral motor exercises and suddenly we heard her little voice.

We were also having feeding issues, I believe that with the oral

motor exercises it helped to get her off baby food finally.

Check with your library to see if they have a copy of it to see how

your child reacts to it.

>

> Hello, I have a son, who will be 5 years old in November

(06).

> has a severe speech delay and has been diagnosed with oral

> apraxia about a year ago.

> He presents an open mouth posture, tongue trusting (therefore he

has a

> lot of difficulty chewing food), always has his tongue " embracing "

the

> cup when drinking and does not move his tongue to the side. He also

> drools a lot.

> About a week ago, we placed a tongue crib on him, to try to help

with

> tongue positioning and swallowing paterns. I would like to know if

> anyone has tried this appliance before and if yes, if they noticed

> results. Also if anyone has tips about eating or drinking

exercises

> that helped their child. We have been in speech therapy

(conventional)

> since he was 2 years old and with an Apraxia specilized therapist

for

> approximatelly 6 months, but I have seen very little results.

Help...

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Deborah. Someone here (I think it was here) once posted that the

super sour sprays (you can buy them at blockbuster and probably

stores like Target) helped her child be more aware of swallowing.

She said that she would spray the sour stuff in her child's mouth

and say " swallow " and then eventually she was able to just say the

word " swallow " to remind her child not to drool. My son doesn't

have problems with drooling or open mouth posture, but his OT uses

the sour sprays to stimulate mouth awareness as part of his oral SI

therapy. We've also tried lemon juice and carbonated drinks for

mouth awareness, and those might help with the drooling too. Good

luck.

>

> Hello, I have a son, who will be 5 years old in November

(06).

> has a severe speech delay and has been diagnosed with oral

> apraxia about a year ago.

> He presents an open mouth posture, tongue trusting (therefore he

has a

> lot of difficulty chewing food), always has his tongue " embracing "

the

> cup when drinking and does not move his tongue to the side. He

also

> drools a lot.

> About a week ago, we placed a tongue crib on him, to try to help

with

> tongue positioning and swallowing paterns. I would like to know

if

> anyone has tried this appliance before and if yes, if they noticed

> results. Also if anyone has tips about eating or drinking

exercises

> that helped their child. We have been in speech therapy

(conventional)

> since he was 2 years old and with an Apraxia specilized therapist

for

> approximatelly 6 months, but I have seen very little results.

Help...

>

[Guest guest]

I have a non verbal 2 year old that has been getting speech/feeding

therapy for over a year now. For her birthday we tried the Baby

Babble video, with her watching it everyday she started copying the

oral motor exercises and suddenly we heard her little voice.

We were also having feeding issues, I believe that with the oral

motor exercises it helped to get her off baby food finally.

Check with your library to see if they have a copy of it to see how

your child reacts to it.

>

> Hello, I have a son, who will be 5 years old in November

(06).

> has a severe speech delay and has been diagnosed with oral

> apraxia about a year ago.

> He presents an open mouth posture, tongue trusting (therefore he

has a

> lot of difficulty chewing food), always has his tongue " embracing "

the

> cup when drinking and does not move his tongue to the side. He also

> drools a lot.

> About a week ago, we placed a tongue crib on him, to try to help

with

> tongue positioning and swallowing paterns. I would like to know if

> anyone has tried this appliance before and if yes, if they noticed

> results. Also if anyone has tips about eating or drinking

exercises

> that helped their child. We have been in speech therapy

(conventional)

> since he was 2 years old and with an Apraxia specilized therapist

for

> approximatelly 6 months, but I have seen very little results.

Help...

>

[Guest guest]

Deborah,

in my sons DMDclass they put a gummy bear in the bottom of a small paper cup

(dixi cup) then add jello... the child then sucks the jello through the straw

to get to the gummy bear, it was amazing at how quickly these kids stopped or

minimalized the drooling.

--

Heidi

www.allaboutgage.blogspot.com

[Guest guest]

Deborah,

in my sons DMDclass they put a gummy bear in the bottom of a small paper cup

(dixi cup) then add jello... the child then sucks the jello through the straw

to get to the gummy bear, it was amazing at how quickly these kids stopped or

minimalized the drooling.

--

Heidi

www.allaboutgage.blogspot.com

[Guest guest]

This tip reminds me, my son's OT and SLP wanted him to use straws to

drink as much as possible to strengthen the muscles in his mouth, but I

needed a spill proof version some of the time and didn't want a him to

have a hard straw in his mouth in the car. Nuby makes a sippy cup with

a straw, but the straw is soft and spill proof. I found them at Wal

Mart.

>

> Deborah,

> in my sons DMDclass they put a gummy bear in the bottom of a small

paper cup (dixi cup) then add jello... the child then sucks the jello

through the straw to get to the gummy bear, it was amazing at how

quickly these kids stopped or minimalized the drooling.

> --

> Heidi

> www.allaboutgage.blogspot.com

>

>

[Guest guest]

This tip reminds me, my son's OT and SLP wanted him to use straws to

drink as much as possible to strengthen the muscles in his mouth, but I

needed a spill proof version some of the time and didn't want a him to

have a hard straw in his mouth in the car. Nuby makes a sippy cup with

a straw, but the straw is soft and spill proof. I found them at Wal

Mart.

>

> Deborah,

> in my sons DMDclass they put a gummy bear in the bottom of a small

paper cup (dixi cup) then add jello... the child then sucks the jello

through the straw to get to the gummy bear, it was amazing at how

quickly these kids stopped or minimalized the drooling.

> --

> Heidi

> www.allaboutgage.blogspot.com

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much! I will definetelly look for the cup and try the

gummy bear exercise!

Deborah

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much! I will definetelly look for the cup and try the

gummy bear exercise!

Deborah