Hi there! We have a new child who is having Speech and Language Therapy. Mum gave me a letter from the SPL Therapist who says she wants us to play lip games encouraging more awareness of lip closure - he dribbles excessively.

Does anyone have any first hand experience of this and do you have any exercises and games we could use as the SPL Therapist offered none. I am going to ring her tho but know you guys will come up trumps before I can get her on the phone
Thanks!

Just dashing out but didn't want to read and run!

My immediate thought is have you heard of 'Mr Tongue' ?

I haven't got anything I can attach as it's all at work but it was recommmended by a SALT seeing one of our children.

Maybe a quick google of Mr Tongue might throw something up but I will come back tomorrow when I have had a root around at work and see what I can find!

Thank you Geraldine. All help gratefully received. I think I've got a tatty copy of Mr Tongue but I think his concentration is so poor we could only do a bit but I will try!

just putting my thought down,

would games to make silly sounds which require you to keep lips together be a way to go..

like blowing raspberries or train or car brumm sounds.. is there a story you could make up using toys and these sounds incorporated.

Inge

how about things like -bubble blowing ,blow football, bubble painting, blowing paint with straws.
songs such as - baa baa black sheep ,
mirrors so they can see what shapes their mouths make,
sound bags - pretty bag with different objects in , they then pick out an object and name it -you could use objects that start with the same letters and change the letters each day letters such as 'mmm' 'bbbbb' 'pppp' etc
a bag with animals in and they choose an animal and make the noises

i would suggest tactile chewing objects to develop mouth muscles, including food items such as dried mango (if he can manage that) as it's usually a loose mouth that dribbles.

We have had some success with Chewy Tubes, having had them recommended to us by our Inclusion support team.

Maz

A few years ago we had a little girl with similar problems - we were asked to encourage her to suck - using straws at snack was good - it all helps to develop the right muscle within the jaw.
Also mum was encouraged to provide drinks with straws - luckily there are flasks with straws these days so drinks cartons with too much sugar are not necessary!

Spiral.

Miss Lips,
I was given this by slt for a child who has excessive dribbling and he loves it.
killowengirl

Killowengirl, can you tell me a bit more please?

Googling Miss Lips brings up some links which are probably best not clicked on!

However, I did manage to find one that I could share!

http://ds-liverpool.org.uk/

If you scroll down to Speech and Language Therapy there are 2 zip files with Miss Lips and Mr Tongue.

I did same as Beau...

felt better not to suggest it...

Inge

Trust Beau to lower the tone eh Inge?

Thanks for this - they look really good to the lay person. Have saved them away because you never know when they might come in handy!

Maz