By The Bay Speech Therapy

05/05/2023

04/17/2023

📣Big News! 📣We have openings for speech and feeding therapy in office or home. Also something new! intensive summer sessions! 😎 Call now! 📲We are booking appointments today!🗣️
📍Tiverton, RI

01/01/2023

Happy New Year 🎊 Now booking January appointments!

12/19/2022

New Flyers ready to go!

12/09/2022

Some of the services available!

12/07/2022

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11/07/2021

Tongue ties don’t just impact breast feeding success, they can also contribute to picky eating from the time babies start solids to much later in life. I have had SO MANY kids who end up on my caseload in elementary school because they “never grew out of picky eating as a toddler” & the culprit all along was a strand of tissue called a tongue tie. We all have a frenum or frenulum that helps anchor our tongue, but when that tissue is too restrictive kids tend to stick chicken nuggets, French fries, yogurt, fish crackers…food that just SQUISH between the teeth & are easily swallowed.

Here are a few FUNCTIONAL signs that your child may have a tongue tie (ankyloglossia) & would require an evaluation by a specially trained, experienced SLP or OT.

🥄Spoon & Finger👌🏼Feeding
😝Retraction of tongue upon presentation of the spoon
😓Inadequate caloric intake due to inefficiency & fatigue
🤭Tactile oral sensitivity secondary to limited stimulation/mobility of tongue
👄 Over-use of lips, especially lower lip, leading to myofunctional disorders
😟Difficulty progressing from “munching” to a more lateral, mature chewing pattern
😕Tongue restriction may influence swallowing patterns & cause
compensatory motor movements, which may lead to additional
complications, such as “sucking back” the bolus in order to propel it to be swallowed
😳Possible development of picky, hesitant or selective eating because eating certain foods are challenging
🤢Gagging & subsequent vomiting when food gets “stuck” on tongue.
😡Secondary behaviors to avoid discomfort that are thus protective in nature, such as refusing to sit at the table or being able to eat only when distracted

🪥🦷🪥Oral Hygiene, Dental & Other Issues Related to Feeding
🦷Dental decay in childhood & adulthood because the tongue cannot clean the teeth & spread saliva
👎🏻Possible changes in dentition with certain compensatory methods to propel bolus posteriorly for swallowing, such as finger sucking
😦Open bite
😴Snoring
💧Drooling
🍕Messy eating
🥤 Requiring frequent sips of liquid to wash down bolus.

😤Airway issues can also be a factor…if you can’t breathe, eating is hard!

05/31/2021

Remembering those that fought for and served our country on this Memorial Day❤️🤍💙

05/18/2021

Happy SLP Day to all my: speech therapist, speech teachers, swallow nurse, throat ladies!
We have a hard job and wear so many hats but it’s worth it. Enjoy this day celebrating you!

05/16/2021

Swipe to see expressive and receptive milestones for the first year of life 🍼

Some additional signs of development being in track include:
📌Baby likes to look at your face...enjoys peek a boo
📌Responds to familiar faces
📌Babbling and making different sounds
📌Starts following simple commands “give me the toy”🧸

05/16/2021

Hope you’re enjoying the weekend

05/09/2021

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms today!