A Simplified Approach to Rehabilitation of Swallowing: Labiotherapy

Abstract

The practitioner must therefore take care of the withdrawal strategy with the child and his parents to inhibit dysfunctional praxies and be able to facilitate the establishment of physiological praxies. At this age, neuronal maturity does not allow voluntary control of the lingual musculature required for conventional speech therapy, which has led us to consider a more suitable approach to young children: labiotherapy. The control of the labial dynamics is much easier than the control of the lingual dynamics, and it is the starting point of a series of sensory-motor modifications that the works of Eric Kandel and the new data of the neuro sciences to understand: