Oral Placement Therapy (OPT) is used when a client cannot produce the standard speech sound using traditional
approaches which rely on "Look at me, listen to me and say what I say."

OPT adds the tactile component or the "feel" of speech. Talk Tools® unique therapy tools are used to teach
articulator awareness, placement and muscle memory.

Once the client is able to produce the required placement the speech sound is immediately introduced along
with traditional interventions.

EBP - An Explanation and Response to the Issues

Treatment of Children with Speech Oral Placement Disorders (OPDs): A Paradigm Emerges,
Bahr and Rosenfeld-Johnson (Communication Disorders Quarterly 2010)

Effects of Oral-Motor Therapy for Tongue Thrust and Speech Production Rosenfeld-Johnson,
ASHA 2008)

Oral-Motor (Muscle-Based) Exercises For Speech Clarity (Rosenfeld-Johnson, ASHA 2007)


Safe Feeding and Prevention of Ear Infections (Rosenfeld-Johnson, 9th World Down Syndrome Congress 2006)


Efficacy of Using an Oral-Motor Approach to Remediate Distorted /r/ (Lohman-Hawk, ASHA 2007)