Lip Prints

Home Program for Oral-Motor Skills

By Joanne Hanso

Ages Birth-K

Speech-Language Pathologists and occupational therapists treating children age birth to 5 years with oral-motor, feeding, swallowing, and/or articulation problems will want this practical new resource. Parents and caregivers will also love the easy-to-implement strategies and exercises.

Lip Prints incorporates the principles of child-centered, play-based, and relationship-based therapy, making the activities effective as well as fun so that the layperson can follow the directions, and understand the content. The articles are concise, are reproducible, and cover specific topics such as Babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Transitioning to Food and Utensils, and Low Music Tone.

Lip Prints is a fun book. It gives some very basic information to parents and caregivers seeking a general overview of many areas of speech, oral-motor, and feeding skills. It will help parents think more about the things they do every day with their child and is a useful tool for intervention and prevention.