Oral-Motor Delays

Therapy Goals


  • Develop increased range of movement, precision, rate, muscle tone, stabilization, and strength of oral structures needed for speech and feeding. 
  • Increase tactile and sensory perception, spatial and proprioceptive understanding of oral structures for speech and resting postures through oral sensory-motor exercises.  
  • Modify oral tactile sensory acuity as needed.  
  • Decrease drooling, decrease poor control of food while eating, and enhance breath support for adequate respiration, phonation, and resonation, required for speech skills.

















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