Prevention of Feeding, Speech, and Mouth Development Problems: Birth to Age 2

Course overview

This course presents strategies to help establish solid foundations for the development of normal speech and feeding behavior for young children ages birth to 2 years. There are many children on our caseloads who were born with typically developing mouths, but then something went wrong - particularly in the first year. These children develop low tongue resting positions, high narrow palates, small nasal airways, and feeding and speech problems. These difficulties could be avoided if parents and caregivers beginning at birth used appropriate feeding, speech, and mouth development techniques and activities. In this course, participants will learn how to keep babies and young children (birth to 2 years) on track to prevent or reduce life-long feeding, speech, and mouth development problems.