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ARK Z-Vibe Replacement Battery

$425

Product Description

Note that while this battery is similar in size to a standard AAA battery, the two are not identical. Standard AAA batteries will not power the Z-Vibe, and will usually get stuck inside the device (rendering it useless).

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ARK Probe (set of 3)

$1750

Product Description

This tool has a flat biting surface with a nubby rubber texture. The Probe can be used for a variety of sensory and pre-feeding goals, including oral stimulation and teaching a munch chew.


ARK Z-Vibe with Blue Tip

$3700

Product Description

ARK's Z-Vibe is a new vibratory tool. Mainly used for oral motor stimulation and sensory input, it can also be used outside the mouth on the cheeks, lips and neck. The Z-Vibe provides a vast range of sensory stimulation, although it is only the size of a ballpoint pen! Constructed of a durable aluminium textured handle and sturdy medical grade plastics, Z-Vibe is water resistant and is latex free! This item cannot be returned.

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ARK Z-Vibe Tips Blue

$1750

Product Description

This is the original Z-Vibe tip, designed to produce a variety of sensory results. (Set of 3)


ARK Z-Vibe Tips Cat-N-Mouse Set

$1725

Product Description

The Cat-N-Mouse Tip Set is designed with a variety of textures to generate different sensations within the oral cavity and to the lips and face. Use the ears as "spoons" to scoop foods on either a smooth or textured surface. The different textures can be used to encourage oral-sensory exploration. Set includes one cat and one mouse.

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ARK Z-Vibe Tips Preefer

$1625

Product Description

The yellow Preefer tips are appropriate when a continuous rolling action is desired. (Set of 3)

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ARK Z-Vibe Tips Spoon

$1600

Product Description

The yellow spoon tips are constructed of hard plastic; use them to promote lip closure. (Set of 3)


ARK Grabber XT (green)

$850

Product Description

ARK's Grabbers are designed so that children can hold them by themselves. They provide soothing stimulation that satisfies the need to chew while also improving jaw strength. This Grabber is the more rigid of the original two ARK's Grabbers. The purple Grabber is softer and more pliable.

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ARK Grabber (purple)

$850

Product Description

This easy-to-chew grabber is designed so that children can hold it by themselves. It provides soothing stimulation that satisfies their need to chew while also improving jaw strength. This Grabber is the softer of the original two ARK's Grabbers. The Grabber XT (green) is more firm.

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Assessment and Treatment of the Jaw

$4950

Product Description

The latest book from Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson is a further study of the importance of jaw skills for whole-body sensory organization, feeding safety, and speech clarity.

182 pages. Includes DVD with Sara demonstrating techniques from the book.

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Bite Tube Set 4 Pack

$3150

Product Description

This set of "Bite Tubes" includes one each of the red and yellow Chewy Tubes and purple and green ARK's Grabbers. The instructions included with the set detail the means by which these four tools can be used in a hierarchy of increasing difficulty for development of jaw stability.

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Bubble Bear

$1000

Product Description

Squeeze him and the wand pops out of his head! Filled with 6 ounces of bubble solution.

The Bubble Bear, when used as part of the Bubble Hierarchy, can increase abdominal grading, controlled oral airflow, lip rounding, and tongue retraction.

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Bubble Tube with Refill

$800

Product Description

The TalkTools Bubble Tube, used as part of Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson's airflow hierarchy, promotes abdominal grading, controlled oral airflow, lip rounding and tongue retraction.


Button Pull Exercise Kit

$525

Product Description

The Button Pull Exercise Kit helps address saliva control through development of proper lip closure. Use it as a component of your oral-motor exercise program to develop endurance and skill in the orbicularis-oris muscle as a prerequisite for standard speech sound production (bilabials in particular).


Cando Theraputty (4 oz.)

$900

Product Description

Each color-coded putty has a different consistency ranging from X-Soft for strengthening the weakest grasp to Medium for developing a stronger grip.

Available in: Yellow – X-Soft, Red – Soft and Green – Medium

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Chewnoodle

$800

Product Description

The Chewnoodle is a great tool for your oral sensory needs.  It aids in oral self-regulation and jaw-muscle strengthening.  Chewnoodle is non-toxic, FDA approved, durable and light-weight.  It’s easily accessible carabiner clip attaches to clothing, bag straps, etc making it portable and convenient! Get the Bumpy Chewnoodle ($9.00) for extra stimulation.


Chewy Tubes Yellow

$800

Product Description

Chewy Tubes are innovative oral-motor devices designed to provide a resilient, chewable surface for practicing biting and chewing skills, and to aid in inhibiting teeth grinding. Chewy Tubes are available in three size-specific colors (colors are all FDA approved): red/large, yellow/small, and blue/extra-large.


Chewy Tubes Red

$800

Product Description

Chewy Tubes are innovative oral-motor devices designed to provide a resilient, chewable surface for practicing biting and chewing skills, and to aid in inhibiting teeth grinding. Chewy Tubes are available in three size-specific colors (colors are all FDA approved): red/large, yellow/small, and blue/extra-large.

CME Boxes, full set

$32500

Product Description

This special set of boxes serves to apply CME physical therapy as soon as the child becomes steady in standing position assisted by thighs. The boxes provide to the therapist and parents all the functional bio-mechanic possibilities to stimulate the spectrum of standing stability reactions and equilibrium responses.

The equipment is composed of:

Three boxes with the same measurements, one taller box, one square board, one cubic peg, and one long, narrow piece called a balance bar. Knowing how to take advantage of CME physical therapy set possibilities, children can be stimulated dynamically in order to increase standing posture stability, balance functions and gait control. The set allows the therapist to apply the exercises in a total ergonomic and safe manner, because the execution of exercises is always done inside the range of the therapist’s arms.

Cups



Cut-Out Cup

$700

Product Description

These flexible cups stimulate the corners of the mouth to facilitate lip closure and allow a child to drink without head or neck extension.


Honey Bear with Flex Straw

$900

Product Description

The Honey Bear allows you to control the flow of liquid into a child’s mouth and encourages children to learn how to straw drink. It can also be used to transition from bottle-feeding to cup drinking. You will appreciate the spill-proof lid.


Infa-Trainer Cup

$1700

Product Description

The Infa-Trainer Cup allows you to adjust the flow of liquid by twisting the lid, while the design of the lid allows for stability without encouraging a suckle.

This is the preferred alternative to a "sippy cup."


Recessed Lid Cup

$1300

Product Description

The Recessed Lid Cup has two handles to help keep hands at midline, and the recessed lid encourages tongue retraction and improved lip closure. Two twist-off lids included; can be used for cup or straw drinking.

DVDs



DVD – As a Parent: What Can I Do?

$1500

Product Description

Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson decided to make this DVD specifically for parents with questions about feeding safety and speech clarity.  This video is designed to not only show you what you can do to help your child, but to also explain to you why you are using specific straws, horns or bite tubes


DVD - Bubbles as Therapy Tools with Kit

$8800

Product Description

This one-hour DVD features Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson guiding you step-by-step through her techniques for therapeutic bubble-blowing. Watch as she describes how this therapy increases abdominal strength, prolonged oral airflow, lip closure and lip rounding. Includes TalkTools Bubble Kit. DVD is approved for ASHA or AOTA CEUs (0.1 CEUs, self-study).


DVD - Horns as Therapy Tools with Kit

$8800

Product Description

In this one-hour DVD, Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson details the "how and why" of horn therapy. Learn how horns work to improve abdominal grading, controlled oral airflow and velo-pharyngeal function, and ultimately develop speech clarity. Includes TalkTools original Horn Kit. Horns as Therapy Tools DVD for CEU credit (1 credit hour; 0.1 ASHA or AOTA self-study CEUs).

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DVD - Straws as Therapy Tools with Kit

$8800

Product Description

This one-hour DVD will teach you how Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson's straw hierarchy can improve tongue retraction, lip rounding, and feeding skills, contributing to the development of standard speech production. Includes TalkTools Straw Kit, Straws as Therapy Tools DVD, & 1 CEU packet (1 hour; 0.1 ASHA or AOTA).

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Handwriting Without Tears - Cursive Handwriting

$850

Product Description

This workbook is for third grade students or those working at that level.

Cursive warm-ups facilitate easy transition from print to cursive.  Lesson plans incorporate letter review with words and sentences.  Activity pages combine handwriting instruction with paragraph, poem, composition, and language arts activities.

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Handwriting Without Tears - Get Set For School

$850

Product Description

Children learn joyfully with the multisensory readiness activities. This award-winning activity book helps children of different abilities develop crucial readiness and pre-writing skills.


Handwriting Without Tears - Letters & Numbers for Me

$850

Product Description

This workbook is for kindergarten students or those working at that level. Lessons teach numbers, capitals, and lowercase letters. The activities form good handwriting habits and develop strong writers.


Handwriting Without Tears - My Printing Book

$850

Product Description

This workbook is for first grade students or those working at that level.

Lessons emphasize the correct use of lowercase letters in words and sentences.  Activity pages combine handwriting instruction with other language arts lessons.  Practice pages teach writing on different styles of lines.

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Handwriting Without Tears - Printing Power

$850

Product Description

This workbook is for second grade students or those working at that level.

Activity pages combine handwriting instruction with punctuation, paragraph, poem, and language arts activities for practice.  Practice format includes writing on single lines.

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Hi Bounce Glitter Water Ball

$550

Product Description

Great to work on strengthening skills for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy.

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Hilroy Learn to Letter Pad

$600

Product Description

A writing pad with raised lines to help students stay inside the lines when learning to print.


Jaw Closure Tubes Kit (Progressive)

$2275

Product Description

Set of six firm, reusable bite tubes. When used in a graduated program they teach volitional jaw closure and lip rounding, both of which are prerequisites for straw drinking and speech development. Particularly effective for clients with cerebral palsy or traumatic brain injury. Instructions included.


Jaw Exerciser Kit

$3350

Product Description

Once clients have completed all grades of the Bite Blocks, they are ready to move on to the Jaw Exerciser Kit. This kit addresses jaw stability, facilitates symmetrical jaw strength and works on jaw grading through movement to ensure standard speech sound development. Can be easily cleaned for multiple-client use. Instructions included.


Jaw Grading Bite Blocks (red)

$3000

Product Description

The highly functional Jaw Grading Bite Blocks promote symmetrical jaw strength and stability and work on jaw grading through varying jaw heights. The kit can also be used to teach jaw position and muscle memory for standard speech sound production. Excellent for use with apraxic/dyspraxic clients. Includes two sets of six reusable, durable Bite Blocks and instructions for use.

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Jaw Grading Bite Blocks - Sensory Friendly (purple)

$3000

Product Description

Some clients may prefer biting into a softer surface as they work their way through the Bite Block hierarchy. These new, softer Bite Blocks are the appropriate choice for them. The Sensory-Friendly Bite Blocks work in exactly the same manner as the original version, but are constructed of a softer, more pliable material. Each package includes the two sets of six Bite Blocks required to complete Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson’s Bite Block Hierarchy. Instruction sheet included.


Kazoo

$200

Product Description

Finally a Kazoo that works! This fun tool helps transition oral airflow into easy onset vocalizations for  voice and fluency disorders.


Language Builder Picture Cards

$14550

Product Description

The Language Builder: Picture Noun Card set is a tremendous tool for teaching key language concepts to preschoolage children; children and adults with autism, developmental delay or speech/language delay; or anyone learning or re-learning basic language skills. This 350 card set includes bright, child-pleasing, photographic images from nine basic categories (animals, foods, vehicles, furniture, clothing, toys, everyday objects, shapes and colours).

The Language Builder: Picture Noun Card set is the only flashcard set to offer the Basic Stage Set, which is a complete series of cards to teach identical and similar matching. Fifteen images (105 cards) are Basic Stage Cards. In Stage One, two identical images are on white backgrounds. In Stage Two, five similar images are in their natural settings. The basic stage cards teach matching, labelling and categorization skills. The shape and color cards also have exact duplicates, so you can teach matching with these images as well.

The back of each card is numbered and gives a label and category for the image, as well as suggested activities appropriate to the card. The cards are coated with a high-gloss varnish for durability and all images appear horizontally for consistent presentation. The set also comes with divider cards, pre-printed stickers for custom organizing and a sturdy "work-from" box. Each card is a standard photo 3.5" x 5" size to allow easy incorporation of your own pictures. (all ages)

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Lil Cha Cha

$350

Product Description

Use during sensory play!

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Move 'N Sit 10x10

$3000

Product Description

Move 'N Sit cushions require active participation from users in assuming a correct sitting posture. If you sit incorrectly, you feel off balance. As a wedge, it tilts the user's pelvis to prevent slouching and correctly aligns the spine. One of the surfaces is bumpy and the other is smooth so the user can select which side feels best. Features a convenient handle for carrying and can be used on the floor as well on a chair. Easily inflates with the mouth.

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Nose Clips

$600

Product Description

Nose Clips are excellent for those situations where the client with whom you are working cannot differentiate between oral and nasal airflow to successfully work through the Horn or Bubble Hierarchy. At the outset, the clip can be used to completely restrict nasal airflow; by adding a series of elastic bands over time, the degree of pressure the clips exert is reduced, encouraging your client to use oral airflow on his or her own. Instructions included.

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Nose Flutes

$200

Product Description

The Nose Flute is one of the best tools on the market to facilitate nasal airflow, an integral component of velo-pharyngeal control and speech clarity development.

Oral Placement Therapy for Speech Clarity and Feeding

$6100

Product Description

Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson's step-by-step task-analyzed approach to Oral Placement Therapy can help facilitate success for clients of all ages and ability levels who evidence speech clarity disorders related to insufficient oral-motor skills or abilities. The exercises are appropriate for many clients diagnosed with Down syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, apraxia/dyspraxia, post-CVA, VPI, and autism, as well as those with less-involved deficits such as lisp or vocalic /r/. Sara's hands-on methods which are graphically captured in this book can help facilitate success for clients of all ages and ability levels who evidence speech clarity disorders related to insufficient oral-motor skills or abilities.

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Peanut Ball - 12" Green

$3200

Product Description

Challenges children to balance as they roll and bounce. Enhances focus by supporting need for movement. Contoured saddle provides stability. Shaped for forward and back rotation. Holds up to 750 pounds. Recommended for daily exercise and therapy programs. 15" Yellow - $40.

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Pencil Grip

$300

Product Description

The Pencil Grip works with the body’s natural physiology to gently place fingers in the proper position for gripping. It works for both right and left handed users by gently placing the hand of its users in the proper position for gripping. The natural feel and soft comfortable material make it easy and fun to write.


Pre-Hierarchy Horn

$1000

Product Description

The Pre-Hierarchy Horn sounds off with both inhalation and exhalation. Combined with the wide mouth opening, this proven tool helps very young children and clients with minimal airflow progress to the Original Horn Kit. Also for those who cannot blow Horn #1. Instructions included.


Puppets

$250

Product Description

An excellent motivator, these terrycloth puppets come in 12 different characters!


Scissors Easi-Grip

$1300

Product Description

Suitable for left- or right-handers. These scissors automatically open when pressure is released.

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Scissors Easi-Grip

$500

Product Description

Suitable for left- or right-handers. These scissors automatically open when pressure is released.

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Sensory Bean Bags

$3000

Product Description

These "bean bags" are a fun and safe way to benefit clients with tactile-defensive behaviors, as well as those with hyposensitivity or hypersensitivity on the face. The various textures help normalize sensitivity on body and face. (Set of 6)

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Sensory Brush

$300

Product Description

Brushes that are commonly used in sensory defensiveness programs.


Singalingalong - Music Express CD

$2000

Product Description

Singalingalong is an energetic and joyful collection of songs for children of all ages. Originally composed for use in a clinical setting to strengthen speech, language and social communication skills, it appeals to all children (and their parents!) who love music. With skilfully arranged instrumentation and amazing vocalists, this varied collection is sure to entertain and educate.
All songs have been approved by the most honest critics – children!!

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Squeeze Pop Fish

$250

Product Description

Squeeze this adorable little fish and watch the mouth pop open and ooze ocean water encased in a clear flexible bubble! Great for tactile fun and for finger strengthening activities.
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Tickles the Turtle

$2000

Product Description

Calm tension and wake up tired muscles with our vibrating Pet Massagers. Stimulating and fun, just press the button for a vigorous massage. Power off for a rolling massage. Double A batteries not included. Ages 3+. Small parts.


Tongue Depressors (box of 50)

$1200

Product Description

Tongue Depressors can be used to promote lip closure, nose breathing and saliva control.

Three different flavours to choose from – Cherry, Strawberry and Grape!


Tongue Tip Lat-Elev Tool Set

$2600

Product Description

These remarkable tools teach tongue-tip lateralization, elevation and depression for improved feeding skills and speech clarity. Their design helps establish jaw stability to facilitate independent movement of the tongue tip for lateralization across midline and for elevation and depression of the tongue tip.

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Vibe Critters

$4500

Product Description

These colorful critters provide gentle, calming sensory stimulation to the mouth, cheek, and lip area. The bumpy textures and ridges on the interchangeable facial/oral massager heads are great for improving sensory perception or feeding. The characters screw easily onto the vibrating wand. Use the adjustable turn-dial to regulate vibration intensity. Latex Free.


Vibrator & Toothettes (20 Toothettes)

$1150

Product Description

The hand-held Vibrator & Toothette® provide an excellent option to promote awareness of the oral cavity and to relax "fixing". It is also a valuable tool for diagnosing oral sensitivity. Includes 20 Toothettes®.

Need more Toothettes®?  $10 for a pack of 20.


Yuk-E-Ball - 1.5 kg (blue)

$5500

Product Description

Yuk-E-Balls have many sensory uses and are a great tactile and weighted product. These highly tactile fluid-filled PVC balls with smaller balls inside can be easily manipulated. Stack them, roll them, sit on them, squish them and more! Also available in 2kg (green) for $65.00.

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Zoo Sticks

$300

Product Description

These fun "chopsticks" help to develop fine motor skills for handwriting. Their playful shapes gain and hold the attention of youngsters and are a great tool to strengthen the skill side of the hand (thumb, index and middle fingers) that is important for proper grasp.

Kits & Programs


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Apraxia Kit

$5200

Product Description

Ideal for transitioning clients with motor-planning deficits from oral-motor exercises to speech production. The three sets of tools - Bilabial Shapes, Tactile Tubes and Speech Blocks - provide tactile cueing so clients can feel where the articulators should be. They also provide a multi-sensory approach to facilitating speech.


Bubble Kit

$3275

Product Description

The Bubble Kit is a great way to get started on Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson's bubble hierarchy. The items included were chosen for their capacity to promote abdominal grading, lip closure, lip rounding and tongue retraction. Instructions included.

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Drooling Remediation Program

$15000

Product Description

Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson's step-by-step approach to controlling drooling is not a behavioral approach; it addresses the cause of the problem from an oral-motor perspective.

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Duration Breathing Tubes Kit

$1200

Product Description

Duration Tubes provide a visual cue for increasing controlled airflow. By lengthening the tube and switching from the fuzzy to the plastic ball you can make the exercise more difficult as your client gains proficiency.


Ice Sticks Program

$2400

Product Description

Renee Roy Hill and Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson designed this program for clients with cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury or Moebius Syndrome. This multi-sensory approach will teaches activities to develop the skills necessary to implement an Oral Placement/feeding/speech therapy program. Excellent for achieving lip rounding and lip closure.  Includes 1 Ice Stick.

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Jaw Program

$28000

Product Description

This program includes all of the tools necessary to complete the exercises found in Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson's book, Assessment and Treatment of the Jaw. Includes DVD - Forms for Oral Placement Assessment, all in a convenient carrying and storage case. See additional info for program contents.


Original Horn Kit

$3400

Product Description

A TalkTools original! This motivational therapy tool serves as a beneficial adjunct to traditional therapy techniques. The horn kit is designed to normalize oral musculature, correct articulation errors, improve abdominal grading and speech clarity, and also serves as a prerequisite for working on oral-nasal contrasts. Instructions included. NOTE: Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson, MS, CCC/SLP, has reconfigured the Horn Blowing Hierarchy. Horn #9 (Airplane Horn) and Horn #14 (Balloon Horn) are no longer components of this kit. This change will NOT affect the hierarchy in any way.


Parent Kit: Using Oral-Placement Therapy With Your Child

$10000

Product Description

This kit is designed for parents and includes the tools and information you need to start using Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson's Oral Placement Therapy techniques in your own home. If you are a parent who has heard the "success stories" brought about through Sara's techniques but were unsure how to begin, this introductory kit is exactly what you've been looking for.

You will receive our Original Horn Kit, Straw Kit, Bite Tube Set 4 pack and complete detailed instructions, along with additional information written by Sara, specifically for parents. Includes the DVD: As a Parent: What Can I Do?

WARNING!  CHOKING HAZARD
Adult supervision is required when implementing this program

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SMILE Program

$10000

Product Description

The SMILE (SysteMatic Intervention for Lingual Elevation) Program, developed by Robyn Merkel-Walsh, is a fun therapy program for tongue thrust remediation. This program, featuring "Mr. Smile," targets speech and swallowing skills in a 14-step hierarchy.


Straw Kit

$2900

Product Description

An excellent supplement to traditional therapy techniques, and the best exercise available to promote tongue retraction and controlled tongue movements. The hierarchy promotes jaw-lip-tongue dissociation through 12 stages of development. Instructions included.