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Before making a decision about whether or not to release your child’s tongue tie, make sure that you’ve got the right information on their diagnosis. We recommend seeking advice from a professional with continuing education and the qualifications to properly diagnose tongue-tie. That means talking to a: MR TONGUE STORY The Mr Tongue story encourages students to explore the different parts of their mouth If you enjoyed reading Tongue Exercises For Speech Articulation in Toddlers, you might also enjoy reading: Mr Tongue lives in a house, which is your mouth! Your teeth are his windows and your lips are his doors. Lingual artery (dorsal lingual, sublingual, deep lingual arteries), ascending palatine, tonsillar, ascending pharyngeal arteries

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Tongue-tie restrictions have so many variables to them. Some adults have visible, tight tongue ties, did just fine feeding as infants, and never needed speech therapy in their school-aged years. Some adults have seemingly minor tongue ties and experience things like mouth breathing, headaches, poor posture, and sleep apnea because of them. When it comes to your child’s development, tongue-tie isn’t a guarantee of anything. But, we know that’s not a super-satisfying answer! So since the ways tongue-tie affects speech and development aren’t super clear, let’s start with what we do know. The superior longitudinal muscles are made up of a thin layer of muscle fibers traveling in a mixture of oblique and longitudinal axes just deep to the superior mucosal surface of the organ. These fibers arise from the median fibrous septum as well as the fibrous layer of submucosa from the level of the epiglottis. They eventually insert along the lateral and apical margins of the organ. These muscles are responsible for retracting and broadening the tongue, as well as elevating the tip of the tongue. The net effect of these muscles results in shortening of the organ. The intrinsic tongue muscles can operate independently, or in combination with each other to give rise to numerous shapes. This is an important feature of the tongue as it facilitates molding of the food particles into a bolus in preparation for deglutition and speech. Key facts Superior longitudinal

Because the evidence we have now doesn’t support a correlation between tongue-tie revisions and improved articulation skills, we do not recommend releasing your child’s tongue tie just to prevent potential future problems. To put it really plainly, there’s just no guarantee that tongue-tie release surgery (also called a frenectomy) will make a difference. Move your tongue left and right slowly. Then Mr Tongue went for a walk. He looked left and right before he crossed the road. Ask the students to put their fingers on their throat and feel when the 'engine' is switched on/off. Mr Tongue is very busy. He puts on the dishwasher /sh, sh, sh/. He chops wood for the fire /ch, ch, ch/. He walks his dog /h, h, h/. When he finishes his work, he boils the kettle to make himself a cup of tea /s, s, s/. To improve tongue strength, we encourage the child to give his tongue full movement throughout his mouth. For this, you can try these exercises:The tongue has multiple sources of innervation based on its embryological origins. The nerve supply to the tongue can be grouped based as efferent fibers that carry motor impulses, general sensory that conveys touch and proprioception, and special afferent that conveys gustatory impulses. Motor innervation There are three cranial nerves responsible for conveying taste sensation from the tongue to the brain. These are facial (CN VII), glossopharyngeal (CN IX) and (to a lesser extent) vagus (CN X) nerves The region of the tongue covered by each nerve is dependent on the proximity of the developing taste bud (and lingual papilla) to the free nerve ending. The facial nerve mitigates special sensory signals from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue, as well as from the inferior part of the soft palate. Fibers of the facial nerve arise across the tongue, anterior to the terminal sulcus and are initally are carried via the lingual nerve, which in turn passes them onto the chorda tympani.

Teaching children to clap out words into individualsyllables can really help their speech but is also really useful for spelling too. Mr Tongue has a nose chimney that helps him say some sounds: - with his lips together he says /m, m, m/ - with his tongue behind his top teeth he says /n, n, n/ While tongue-ties can contribute to speech difficulties, it's important to understand that they are not always the cause. Some children with tongue-ties experience normal speech development, while others may have difficulties pronouncing some sounds. Foliate papillae appear as bilaterally paired, parallel, longitudinal slits on the posterolateral margin of the tongue, near the sulcus terminalis. The mucosa is non-keratinized and the papillae are populated with numerous taste buds.Neither the tuberculum impar (from 1st pharyngeal arch) nor the copula (2nd pharyngeal arch) contributes to structures of the adult tongue. Try doing a tongue pop. Place your tongue to the top of the mouth and then pop it. Do 10-12 pops at a time. The oral and pharyngeal part of the tongue eventually fuses, forming a V-shaped junction known as the sulcus terminalis. While the connective tissue and vascular supply of the tongue mostly originate from the preceding pharyngeal arches, the intrinsic and extrinsic muscles are myoblast derivatives originating from the occipital myotomes. It’s not the same as a standardised measure a specialist would carry out but it should give you an idea of how your baby or child is developing and whether you need some support or advice to help you and them. The anterior two-thirds of the organ is known as the presulcal (oral) part, and the posterior third is the postsulcal (pharyngeal) part.

Melong, J., Bezuhly, M., & Hong, P. (2021). The effect of tongue-tie release on speech articulation and intelligibility. Ear, Nose & Throat Journal, 01455613211064045. Last week, I shared four guidelines and a recommended sequence for introducing letters. Today we will continue with a great reading game that focuses on the ever important, yet often overlooked, skill of phonemic awareness. Under normal circumstances, the tongue is a pink, muscular organ located within the oral cavity proper. It is kept moist by the products of the major and minor salivary glands, which aids the organ as it facilitates deglutition, speech, and gustatory perception. While there is significant variability in the length of the tongue among individuals, on average, the organ is roughly 10 cm long. It has three main parts:

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This is a really useful activity to play with any new vocabualry to help children practise new words.