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Week 4

Exercise 1 - Resting Position
Duration: Any time you are at rest (not talking or eating)
Frequency: All day for 7 days

  1. The Spot: Put the tip of your tongue on the bumpy spot behind your top front teeth (the alveolar ridge).
  2. Bite Down: Bite down on your back teeth.
  3. Close Lips: Gently close your lips.

Tips for this exercise:

  1. You should be working on maintaining a correct resting position at all times during the week. Any time you are not talking or eating, your tongue, teeth, and lips should remain in the resting position. At the end of each day you should track how well you maintained the resting position. Write an "A" for "all" on the tracking sheet if you maintained the correct resting position at all times during the day. Write a "P" for "part" on the tracking sheet if you maintained the correct resting position for part of the day. Write an "N" for "none" on the tracking sheet if you did not maintain the correct resting position at all that day.

Exercise 2 - Bowl Swallows
Duration: 15 times
Frequency: 3 times a day for 7 days

  1. Tongue Out: Stick your tongue out – letting it rest on your bottom lip.
  2. Tongue Bowl: Gently raise the side and tip of your tongue to create a “bowl” shape.
  3. Squirt: Using a squirt bottle, spray a few squirts of water into the “bowl” your tongue has created.
  4. Pull Back: Slowly pull your tongue back into your mouth – keeping it in a “bowl” shape as you pull it back.
  5. The Spot: After you have pulled your tongue into your mouth, lift the tip of your tongue up to “the spot” (the bumpy spot behind your top front teeth).
  6. Bite: Slowly bite down your back teeth – keeping your tongue tip on “the spot” as you bite down.
  7. Smile: Spread your lips into a wide smile and hold them there.
  8. Swallow: Swallow the water keeping your tongue tip on “the spot”, and squeezing the middle of your tongue up against the roof of your mouth.

Tips for this exercise:

  1. Look at your tongue in a mirror during the entire exercise.
  2. As you complete the pull back – make sure your tongue is being pulled straight back using the back muscles in your tongue – don’t just curl the tip back to bring your tongue into your mouth.
  3. While swallowing your tongue should not push against or past your teeth. Your tongue should not push forward at all.

Exercise 3 - Soft Food Swallows
Duration: 15 times
Frequency: 3 times a day for 7 days

  1. Place Food: Place a small amount of soft food in the middle of your tongue (applesauce, pudding, yogurt, etc.).
  2. The Spot: Put the tip of your tongue on the bumpy spot behind your top front teeth (the alveolar ridge).
  3. Bite: Bite down on your back teeth.
  4. Smile: Spread your lips into a wide smile.
  5. Squeeze: Squeeze your tongue up against the roof of your mouth.
  6. Swallow: Swallow the food.
  7. Check: Look at your tongue in the mirror to see how much of the food you swallowed.

Tips for this exercise:

  1. Look at your tongue in a mirror during the entire exercise.
  2. When using a spoon to place the food in your mouth, it is the easiest to put the spoon in your mouth and then turn it upside down to scrape the food onto the middle of your tongue.
  3. While swallowing your tongue should not push against or past your teeth. Your tongue should not push forward at all.

Exercise 4 - Three Swallow Drinking
Duration: Until a regular sized drinking glass is gone
Frequency: 3 times a day for 7 days

  1. The Spot: Put the tip of your tongue on the bumpy spot behind your top front teeth (the alveolar ridge).
  2. Bite: Bite down on your back teeth.
  3. Head Straight: Hold your head straight.
  4. Raise Drink: Raise the drink up to your mouth.
  5. Swallow: Take 3 consecutive swallows of the water, keeping your tongue tip on the spot, your teeth closed, and your head straight. Then put the drink down.

Tips for this exercise:

  1. Look at your tongue in a mirror during the entire exercise.
  2. Make sure to bring the drink to your mouth, not your mouth to the drink.
  3. Wrap your lips around the cup, keeping your teeth closed the entire time during the drink. Don’t wrap your teeth around the drink.
  4. While swallowing your tongue should not push against or past your teeth. Your tongue should not push forward at all.