Saturday, July 26, 2008

Oral-Motor Exercises

Got this info from E's speech therapist...

A little mouth work every day will help a child learn about lips, teeth and the tongue and how they all work together to make sounds and words.

Keep this short and fun - a little each day and save some for later...

  • Let's look at those beautiful clean teeth! Say cheese!!
  • Can you make your teeth go bite-bite-bite??
  • Open your mouth really wide. Say Ahhhhh
  • Close your lips very tight. Say Mmmmm
  • Make your lips a little circle. Say Ooooo
  • Stick your tongue out. Say Blah
  • Make your tongue "dance" all around.
  • Can your tongue go to the corner of your mouth? Try the other corner.
  • Pretend you have ice cream on your lips - lick the bottom and top.
  • Bounce your lips and say pop-pop-pop
  • Blow kisses in the mirror
  • Kiss the mirror and look at lip prints
  • Blow Raspberries
  • Make funny faces with lots of mouth movement

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