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#220: EESA Assessment: Dr. Barbara Esch on Building Vocal Language and Avoiding Carrier Phrases

Turn Autism Around

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How to Improve Speech With Oral Motor Work

I really haven't met a child who's not speaking, who doesn't also that has autism that or signs of autism that also doesn't have feeding issues. So any kind of activity that gets vocalizing, happening with tongue movement, let movement, jaw movement, I think is all to the good. There's divided opinion about whether oral motor work will improve speech or whether it will just improve oral motor movement and swallowing and chewing  and things like that. But in general, I would encourage people to do what they can to help their sound system become more sophisticated.

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