Oral Motor Skills and Feeding
Your child’s ability to move their cheeks, lips, and tongue affect how they eat, drink, and swallow foods and liquids.
OT can help you promote your child’s oral motor skills by addressing:
positioning
types of bottle, cup, spoon used
exercises to promote skills
modifying liquids / diet
reflex integration
Breastfeeding
Oral reflexes
Drinking from a bottle or cup
Sticking tongue out
Licking food
Biting
Chewing
Oral exploration / play
Closing lips on food, cup or spoon
Mealtime routines