Sentences with phrase «poor oral motor»

They may also be children who have poor oral motor skills, may drool excessively, may have poor eating skills (under weight or over weight) and poor oral hygiene habits.

Poor oral motor skills places a child at a greater risk for having difficulty saying certain speech sounds.

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The thinking seems to be that if you just don't talk about food allergies, lip ties, sensory disorders, poor oral - motor development, etc., then these things won't affect a baby's ability to breastfeed.

He's had a ton of issues with his oral motor skills, from poor muscle control / tone to hypersensitivity, and after the 20th occupational therapist inquired about his feeding patterns as a baby, I realized that it might not just have been that he preferred bottles with a fast flow nipple, and that his constant nursing strikes weren't because there wasn't enough milk — he simply couldn't suck hard enough to get that milk, thus he got frustrated and refused to empty my breast.