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Week 6

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 - Eating
Duration: During all eating for 7 days
Frequency: 3 times a day for 7 days

  1. Food to Mouth: Bring a piece of food up to your mouth. Do not let your tongue or lips reach out for the food.
  2. Bite: Bite down on your back teeth.
  3. Chew: Chew the food with your lips gently closed and move the food back into your mouth as you chew.
  4. Bolus Formation: When you have chewed the food long enough that it sticks together. Use your lips and cheeks to suck it onto the middle of your tongue forming a bolus or ball.
  5. Check: Check the bolus in the mirror making sure it is in the middle of your tongue and not on or near the tip of your tongue.
  6. The Spot: Put the tip of your tongue on the bumpy spot behind your top front teeth (the alveolar ridge).
  7. Bite: Bite down on your back teeth.
  8. Smile: Spread your lips into a wide smile.
  9. Swallow: Swallow the food making sure that your tongue does not push forward against your teeth.
  10. Check: Check to make sure you have swallowed all the food.

Tips for this exercise:

  1. Look at your tongue in a mirror during the entire exercise.
  2. Make sure to bring the food to your mouth, not your mouth to the food.
  3. While swallowing your tongue should not push against or past your teeth. Your tongue should not push forward at all.

Exercise 3 - Drinking
Duration: During all drinking for 7 days
Frequency: 3 times a day for 7 days


One Swallow Drinking

  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. Sip: Close your lips and sip the water into your mouth (without swallowing).
  6. Smile: Spread your lips into a wide smile.
  7. Swallow: Swallow the water making sure that your tongue does not push forward against your teeth.

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. While swallowing, your tongue should not push against or past your teeth. Your tongue should not push forward at all.

Three Swallow Drinking

  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.

Exercise 4 - Saliva Swallows
Duration: Until 1 mint is completely dissolved and swallowed
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. Place Mint: Hold a sugarless mint inside your cheek to stimulate saliva flow.
  3. Bite Down: When you have enough saliva to swallow, bite your back teeth together.
  4. Close Lips: Close your lips, keeping them relaxed.
  5. Swallow: With your lips closed and relaxed, suck back your saliva and swallow. Make sure that your tongue does not push forward against your teeth as you swallow.
  6. Repeat: Repeat until the entire mint is gone. Do not bite or chew the mint during the exercise.

Tips for this exercise:

  1. Look at your tongue in a mirror during the entire exercise.
  2. You may move the mint around in your mouth during the exercise to stimulate saliva flow, but place the mint back in your cheek before each swallow.
  3. While swallowing your tongue should not push against or past your teeth. Your tongue should not push forward at all.

Exercise 5 - 30 Minute Drinking
Duration: 30 minutes
Frequency: Once a day for 7 days

  1. Fill up an 8oz. glass of liquid.
  2. Choose an activity that lasts at least a half an hour, and that you can drink while completing (i.e. completing homework, watching TV, or reading).
  3. Keeping your attention on your activity, take a sip of your drink every minute or so using the 1-swallow drinking technique.
  4. Try to make the 8oz. of liquid last the entire 30 minutes.

Tips for this exercise:

  1. While swallowing, your tongue should not push against or past your teeth. Your tongue should not push forward at all.