Lip Prints Home Program for Oral-Motor Skills

Written by Joanne Hanson, MS, CCC-SLP

A practical resource for speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists treating children ages birth to 5 with oral-motor, feeding, swallowing, and/or articulation problems. Parents and caregivers will also like the easy-to-implement strategies and exercises.

Lip Prints provides articles and activities that parents and caregivers can easily use, and professionals can choose and explain in a reasonable time frame.

Lip Prints incorporates the principles of child-centered, play-based, and relationship-based therapy, making the activities effective as well as fun and interactive. The articles and activities are written in simple language so that the layperson can follow the directions and understand the content. The articles are concise, reproducible, and cover specific topics such as Babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Transitioning to Food and Utensils, and Low Muscle Tone.

Contents include:
• Caregiver Articles,
• Feeding and Oral-Motor Development in Infants and Toddlers,
• Oral-Sensory Development,
• Other Problems Affecting Oral-Motor Development.

Written by Joanne Hanson, MS, CCC-SLP Spiralbound, 227 pages, 2004.