Learning Outcomes

Occlusion: The Role of the Oral Structure

• Recognize Edward Angle’s dental occlusion classification
• Identify 5 functional appliances
• Understand how dental occlusions can determine facial structures

Neuromuscular Facilitation: Using the whole Mechanism.

• Identify two traditional sensorimotor intervention approaches.
• Understand the relationship between chewing and speech.
• Establish skills to assess when to use NMF
• List 4 step treatment procedures for NMF

Primitive Reflexes: Interrupting the Plan

• Understand the role primitive reflexes play in developmental disorders
• Understand the implications of retained primitive reflexes on therapeutic progression
• Learn how to assess for 6 primary primitive reflexes
• Learn therapeutic activities to apply to 6 areas of retained primitive reflexes

Breathing: Using the Mechanism

• Identify the structures associated with breathing
• Understand the mechanics of breathing
• Develop skills to assess breathing patterns
• Learn treatment methods to improve breathing patterns

Obstacles: Facing Restrictions

• Identify 3 limitations/restrictions.
• Understand the implications of restrictions on therapeutic progression.
• Create treatment plans – examples of homework sheets.
• List therapeutic activities to use in pre/post-surgical situations.

Orofacial Pain

• List the associative issues that contribute to orofacial pain
• Apply therapeutic application to support functional improvements
• Describe patient experiences and treatment plans

Articulation, Fluency & Voice: Behind the Curtain

• Identify the role of motor planning in all speech production.
• Understand influence of tongue movement from Lips to the Larynx.
• List shaping and modeling activities for voice or fluency,

Going with the Flow: A New Direction

• Understand how to target muscular deficits
• Apply the “Flow Chart” to a case study
• Demonstrate advanced therapeutic applications