17/10/2022
Orofacial exercises to improve the development of oral language....
EXERCISES OF THE VEIL OF THE PALATE
• Blow (as it will give strength to the soft palate).
• It is good to record their voice, because if they improve they will be heard and this will encourage them.
• Gargle, as it stretches the soft palate.
• Pronounce the vowel i held (iiiiiiiii); we can also have a list of words with the vowel i, and the child has to repeat them (mimi, ni).
• Make yawns.
• Suck with a straw.
CHEESE AND MANDIBLE EXERCISES
• Inflate and deflate the cheeks with air.
• Inflate alternately cheek with air.
• Aspirate both cheeks.
• Open and close the mouth at different speeds.
• Move the lower jaw from one side to the other.
• Articulate strongly and exaggeratedly PA-TA-CA-DA.
• Make chirps to the right and to the left. After alternately.
• Teaching the teeth, bring the lips back and forth.
• Suck the lower lip with the upper lip and vice versa.
• Bite both lips simultaneously.
• Move the upper lip and lower lip separately.
• Hide one of the lips with the other.
• Hide both lips inwards.
• Whistle.
• Make the position of the vowels without sound (/ a /, / or /, / u /).
• Make engine noise with the lips.
• Make the rabbit.
• Make the fish.
• Make the plane.
LINGUAL EXERCISES
• Remove and stick your tongue in, keeping your mouth open.
• Remove and stick the tongue quickly.
• Remove, stick your tongue in and close your mouth successively.
• Remove the tongue in a tip-to-bottom manner.
• Remove the tongue in a tip without touching the lips.
• In front of the mirror, place the tongue flat outward and also pointed.
• Close your mouth and control the tongue inside it.
• Move the tongue from right to left, touching the corners. The commissures can be smeared with honey, sugar, nocilla, etc., in order to achieve lateral lingual mobilization.
• Move the tongue up and down, keeping the mouth open.
• Move the tongue up and down touching the inner part of the upper and lower teeth alternately, with the mouth open.
BREATHING AND BREATHING EXERCISES
• Touch the tip of the tongue with the upper and lower teeth alternately.
• With the tip of the tongue, alternately push both cheeks.
• Walk the tip of the tongue around the lips in a rotating motion.
• Lick the upper and lower lips.
• Alternately bite the tongue bent up and down.
• With your mouth open, stick your tongue out of your mouth and hold it for a few moments without any movement.
• Move the tongue to the right and left, inside the mouth with it closed and outside with it open.
• With the tip of the tongue with the mouth open, touch different points of the palate and tickle.
• Introduce the tongue between the upper lip and the gum, between the lower lip and the gum. With the mouth open or ajar.
• Click on the tongue. Gently tap the tongue behind the upper teeth, touching the alveoli and making
• Touch the hard and soft palate to
• Put a little bit of chocolate on the contours of the lips and the child will intuitively stick out his tongue. It can be used in summer ice creams, poles.
• Imagine that we have a candy inside the mouth and put the tongue as if it were candy. Also like the hands of the clock and vice versa.
• Remove and bite the tip of the tongue.
• Remove the tip of the tongue and blow.
• Try to touch the tip of your nose with your tongue.
• Try to touch your chin with the tip of your nose.
• Vibrate the tongue against the palate.
• Clean the upper and lower teeth with the tongue
• Clean your teeth with your tongue in a circle.
• Pass a candy from one side of the mouth to the other.
• Hold a jelly bean, a biscuit, etc. with the tip of your tongue.
• Lick a flat lollipop with the tip of your tongue.
• You will be given pieces of solid food, such as a piece of banana, biscuit, etc., which will be placed:
- between the teeth and the upper lip.
- between the teeth and the lower lip.
- under the tongue.
- between teeth and tongue, on both sides of the mouth, first on the upper part of the mouth.
• Roll your tongue back trying to touch the uvula.
• Fold the tongue back and bite it.
• Bend the tongue backwards touching the upper incisors and quickly remove it to the outside.
• Bend the tongue backwards by touching the upper incisors and quickly pull it out and blowing.
• Make a cannelloni. Put the lips in a "u" and remove the tongue making strength in the tip.
• Make the crab. Walk the tongue through the palate from the alveoli to the tender palate.
• Serrar a tronco. Make the tongue vibrate behind the alveoli (make the mistake).
• Petting with the lips.
• Wet your lips with your tongue and press gently against each other.
• Action of squeezing the teeth and moving the lips to one side and to the other.
• Lift the lips with little licks to touch the nose.
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• Take a pencil and hold it with your lips.
• Take a pencil between the upper lip and the nose.
• Put a candy on the table and tell the child to try to catch the candy with his hands with his hands hidden behind his back. We can start with large candies and then progressively smaller.
• Make wars with pencils holding them with their mouths.
• Imitate a person smoking.
• Make a contest to know who throws the pencil farther or on the table. The bigger the pencil, the easier it will be and the smaller the harder it will be.
• Put your lips forward in noses and then stretch them sideways smiling.
• With a button with four large holes, pass a thread or rubber band through them. The child has to try to hold the button in his mouth, while we try to take it out by stretching him. Exactly the same can be done by stretching a chewing gum.
• Put a thread at the end of the tongue and without using the teeth, try to catch it with the lips.
• Hold a card between the teeth with force and prevent it from falling.
• Take cork balls of different sizes with the lips and then expel them.
• Sip a liquid with a soft drink straw
• The habit of breathing with an open mouth must be corrected. Slow breaths cost children a lot.
• If there is little respiratory capacity we will have to enhance the inspiration.
A good exercise is to smell objects: chewing gum, chocolate, flowers, an air freshener, food etc.
• Gymnastic exercises to help a little inspiration and can be done standing, on a mat, etc. The child can be told to raise their hands by drawing air, and then rest their arms a little. Always doing the exercises little by little, since he knows how to do it quickly.
• Put a book on top of your belly and watch how it goes up and how it goes down.
Observe that it closes the mouth well, but can make the inspiration with the mouth open. Always check that all these exercises have their mouths closed.
• You can use a candle, in different positions, closer or farther, but making sure that the child does not turn it off quickly, but that it inspires and expires without turning it off. Another exercise would be to play with him to see which of the two extinguishes the candle before, placing it in different positions; in this way the farther away the veil is, the greater the lung capacity required of the child. You can take two cards, pointing the names of the two and noting crosses every time you hit. If the child is very small, you can leave the exercise for another day, and you will be told how far you will be able to get in the next session.
• Use balloons. They can be used first with the help of hands.
• To be aware that you can breathe through the two nostrils, you can use a small mirror, placed under the nose and you can see if the air comes out only on one side or two.
• Take two boxes of large matches, empty them and join the two parties.
We can place on both sides little balls of paper and we will blow the child through the nose and through the mouth, and in this way you will know if you breathe well.
• Inspire through the nose at different speeds and exhale through the mouth at different speeds as well.
• Imagine that the belly is a balloon that inflates and deflates.
• Blow and aspirate through the mouth.
• By protruding the lower lip that blows upwards, so as to lift the hair from the bangs.
• Stick on the forehead, using adhesive paper, a strip that reaches the height of the mouth, asking him to lift it by the blow and keep it that way for a few seconds.
Exercises for the back of the tongue:
• Gargle with or without water.
• Drink water from a glass.
• Drink with a jug of water. All these exercises are preparatory to doing the gutturals afterwards.
Onomatopoeic noise exercises
• The imitation of a horse (/ lalolalolalo /). Imitate the galloping of the horses, looking for different sonorities varying the opening of the mouth and the position of the lips.
• Call a cat (/ bisbisbis /).
• Imitate the noise of an engine (/ brumbrum /).
• Play ghosts ¡uuuh !, recommended for younger children
• Imitate onomatopoeic sounds: a clock, a trumpet ... etc.
• Exercises with straws:
- Blow and vacuum through a straw.
- Make bubbles with a straw.
- Drink fluids through a straw.
- Transfer water or other liquid from one glass to another.
- Suck water, hold in the mouth and cast in the form of a shotgun.
- Put water in a glass with plastic chips and blow.
- Collect snifters.
- Put the straw in the corner of the mouth and blow.
• Candle exercises:
- Put out the flame of a candle, placing it at different distances from the person to be explored.
- Move the flame of a candle without it going out, controlling the blow.
- Light several candles and extinguish them with a single blow.
- Light several candles and turn them off one at a time.
- Shut candles with straws.
• Exercises with papers:
- Move by blowing small pieces of paper or balls of tissue paper on a smooth surface, controlling the distance.
- Hold a paper or a balloon in the air.
- Trace paths through straws and blow pieces of paper through them.
- Put several pieces of paper on the table and ask the child to throw them on the floor with a single blow.
- With straws, aspirate small pieces of paper.
- Blow different balls of paper: silver paper, silk, folio, etc.
- Gather pieces of paper in a circle blowing with straws.
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Mubeen Aslam
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