“If I just stim the speech sound and the child makes it, do I still need to do oral resting posture therapy?” To make that determination, analyze the child’s lips, tongue, and jaw and make sure they are in their optimum positions to facilitate good speech contacts.
The Timeline Phase is the first of the two carryover phases. Timeline oral resting posture practice requires him to pause, focus on his mouth, and assume positions with his lips, tongue, jaw, and nose that are new and unfamiliar.
The process of developing and establishing a child’s speech pattern may also be dependent on changing and establishing a new oral resting posture. The two are inextricably connected. Here's why....
What would you think of I said that “carryover”—one of the biggest challenges in our profession, and something we do toward the end of our therapy—is best addressed at the beginning and throughout therapy? Crazy? I don’t think so....
Many of us look at a child and ask ourselves—knowingly or unknowingly--if the child's cranio-facial-nasal-oral differences are impacting his/her speech development and/or remediation? Hmmm....