Oral Motor Exercises
Oral Motor Exercises:
Lips
1. Open and close your mouth
2. Pucker your lips (like whistling), then relax
3. Smile, then relax
4. Pucker and hold,then smile and hold
5. Put lips together tightly, then smack open
6. Pucker your lips and swing left, then right
7. Puff out cheeks and hold air in,then slowly blow the air out
Tongue
1. Stick your tongue straight out, hold, then put it in
2. Move your tongue to the right corner of your mouth then to the left on the outside of your mouth
3. Push the inside of your cheek out with your tongue on the right side,then the left side
4. Lift your tongue up to your upper lip, then your lower lip; don‘t use your jaw to lift your tongue up
5. Lift your tongue up behind your front teeth as if you were saying —la“
6. Open your mouth and lick your lips with your tongue in a wide circle
Tongue base
1. Click your tongue on the roof of your mouth
2. Stick your tongue out, then pull your tongue back in until it reaches the back of your throat
3. Say the syllable —ka“
4. Say the syllable —ga“
5. Say the syllable —ag“
6. Swallow very hard
Lips
1. Open and close your mouth
2. Pucker your lips (like whistling), then relax
3. Smile, then relax
4. Pucker and hold,then smile and hold
5. Put lips together tightly, then smack open
6. Pucker your lips and swing left, then right
7. Puff out cheeks and hold air in,then slowly blow the air out
Tongue
1. Stick your tongue straight out, hold, then put it in
2. Move your tongue to the right corner of your mouth then to the left on the outside of your mouth
3. Push the inside of your cheek out with your tongue on the right side,then the left side
4. Lift your tongue up to your upper lip, then your lower lip; don‘t use your jaw to lift your tongue up
5. Lift your tongue up behind your front teeth as if you were saying —la“
6. Open your mouth and lick your lips with your tongue in a wide circle
Tongue base
1. Click your tongue on the roof of your mouth
2. Stick your tongue out, then pull your tongue back in until it reaches the back of your throat
3. Say the syllable —ka“
4. Say the syllable —ga“
5. Say the syllable —ag“
6. Swallow very hard