• Oral Motor Exercises

    1. Pucker, hold, smile, hold. Repeat this alternating movement several times.
    2. Close your lips tightly and press together. Relax and repeat.
    3. Stick out your tongue and move it slowly from corner to corner of your lips. Hold in each corner, relax and repeat several times. Be sure your tongue actually touches each corner each time.
    4. Stick out your tongue. Pretend to lick a sucker moving the tongue tip from down by chin to up by nose. Go slowly and use as much movement as you can. Relax, repeat.
    5. Stick your tongue out and pull it back, then repeat as many times as you can and as quickly as you can. Rest. Repeat.
    6. Move tongue from corner to corner as quickly as you can. Rest. Relax.
    7. Say LA-LA-LA-LA as quickly and accurately as you can. Rest, repeat.
    8. Say KA-KA-KA-KA as quickly and accurately as you can. Rest, repeat.
    9. Say KALA-KALA-KALA as quickly and accurately as you can. Rest, repeat.