How many elevator disks a patient should be expected to add? – Republished

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I wanted to ask you about Elevator Disk and braiding for a patient of mine. I am not sure how many disks a patient should be expected to add to their braid, but I think it would be more than three. Yes?
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Parent insists on therapy despite expander interference

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Q: Good morning.  I need advice: 7 yo boy, mouth breather , interdental tongue posture at rest, speech and swallowing. I’ve seen him for the last 2 months, and despite extremely hard and narrow palate he made great progress both on lip and lingual function.  Now the upper expander is finally placed, and a lower one will
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How often and how long for therapy

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Q:  I understand we would undergo the pre proficiency exam before proceeding to the additional exercises and phases of the Myo Manual.  For example, for a new OSA patient, what will be the usual duration and intensity of myo?   Doing daily?  Two times a week?   For how long? A: Every client will have a different duration for treatment due to
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Nasality, Ankyloglossia and Articulation Protocol

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I recently assessed a seven year old girl who previously had surgery to release her tongue tie.  Her lingual range of motion appears good, (although after taking your course I’m going to do further assessment in this area).  She articulates sounds well at the single word level. The issue that is more noticeable than the articulation errors is hypernasality.  Why does her speech sound hypernasal?
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Questions regarding child’s buy-in for oral habit program

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I purchased your “unplugging the thumb” program and I tried to implement it. However, we are running into an issue with him not buying into stopping his thumb sucking. Do you have any additional tips, tricks, or ideas to help increase his motivation to stop?
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Outcome Measures to Determine Efficacy of Treatment

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Before tongue tie surgery, would you consider doing myo exercises to mobilize the tongue? Or wait to do myo after the surgery?
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Myo exercises before tongue tie surgery

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Before tongue tie surgery, would you consider doing myo exercises to mobilize the tongue? Or wait to do myo after the surgery?
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Orthodontist Expectations From Myofunctional Therapy

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I am working with an eleven-year-old boy, about to finish with braces. The orthodontist did not see the changes as expected and wanted to know if a habit is interfering with his progress.
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Should S and TH be Taught at the Same Time?

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...the causes of TH errors are among the sound errors that are rarely related to myo
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How to Tell Current Patients We Are Instituting Something New

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How do I tell my patients and parents that we are now instituting something new and different from what we have been doing in articulation treatment up to this point?
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