We work with patients before and after a tongue tie procedure. Tongue-tie is a condition present at birth that restricts the tongue's range of motion. With tongue-tie, an unusually short, thick or tight band of tissue (lingual frenulum) tethers the bottom of the tongue's tip to the floor of the mouth, so it may interfere with breastfeeding. Tongue-tie can also affect the way a person eats, speaks, swallows, breathes and sleeps. It is directly related to head and neck problems and pain.

Please note: we do not perform the tongue-tie procedure but we can recommend you to providers we collaborate with.

Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMDs) can affect individuals across various age groups, including children, teenagers, and adults. These conditions have the potential to disrupt the typical growth and development of facial and oral muscles and bones. Additionally, OMDs can hinder the proper functioning of facial and oral muscles in activities such as eating, speaking, and breathing. Those with OMDs may also encounter difficulties in tasks like speaking, swallowing, and nasal breathing. For instance, some children may exhibit a behavior known as tongue thrusting or fronting while talking, drinking, or eating, which represents a specific type of OMD.

Children with expressive and receptive language disorders have difficulties communicating effectively with others. This includes the amount of spoken words, types of grammatical forms used, sentence structure, and proper sequencing of information. Difficulties understanding spoken language. This includes issues with following directions, answering questions and correctly identifying common objects.

In simpler terms, children with these disorders might find it difficult to talk and understand what others are saying, which can make communication a bit tricky for them. These issues can affect how they interact with people and navigate their everyday lives.

Children with speech sound disorders and/or Apraxia have difficulties producing specific sounds correctly or producing sound patterns correctly. Such as saying "tat" for cat or "poon" for spoon. Intelligibility can be minimal to significantly affected.

Apraxia is a motor planning speech sound disorder that is often characterized by difficulty with initiating spoken communication and saying words correctly.

Children with fluency/stuttering experience difficulties with the smoothness of spoken language. There are typical and atypical disfluencies. Halting or tension when speaking, repetitions or whole words, parts of words or fillers (umm, uh, like) are all types of distluencies.

This is not an exhaustive list!

Please reach out to our administrative staff and discuss your concerns. If we are unable to help, we will be happy to refer you to a therapy practice who can address your specific needs.

You can reach our administrative staff at admin@sunshinespeechandmyo.com