Speech Therapy for Tongue-Ties and Lisps - Linda D'Onofrio - MBC#30

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Can we identify dental development issues from speech problems?

If your child struggles with sounds or has a lisp, an oral issue like a tongue-tie may affect their ability to develop speech milestones.

It's an area we don't hear about very often, yet the two go hand in hand.

Proper sounds are the function of how the lips, teeth, and tongue create oral posture for specific letters. Today, many children have issues with speech that may be associated with dental development.

Issues that may associate with lisps include high narrow palates, open bites, and tongue ties.

So what should parents and professionals know and understand?

To help us understand the issues is Linda D'Onofrio who is a CCC-SLP specialized speech-language pathologist with a focus on the link between crooked dental arches and orofacial muscle dysfunction.

Linda has lectured globally on the connection between speech issues and childhood dental development, which is a powerful tool that anyone with children should be aware of.