Straws: Fun & Functional

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"Straw therapy techniques for speech and feeding are the focus of this one-hour video course from TalkTools founder Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson. The course breaks down a straw hierarchy that clinicians can use to build tongue retraction, lip rounding, and the feeding skills that support standard speech production, rather than treating articulation and feeding as separate goals. By the end of the course, participants will be able to apply hierarchical concepts in the context of straw work, list at least three ways straws can improve speech clarity, explain how straw drills help correct a tongue thrust, and use the straw hierarchy to help reduce drooling. Because tongue thrust and drooling both stem from weak oral placement patterns, the same straw sequence addresses several goals at once instead of requiring separate protocols for each. This straw therapy techniques for speech course awards 0.1 CEU and is presented as an interactive, hands-on session, so self study learners are encouraged to follow along with each activity rather than watch passively. TalkTools recommends pairing the course with the Straw Kit so the exact tools used in the video are on hand for practice, and the course itself was created by Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson, TalkTools' founder, drawing on her original straw hierarchy work." Show more