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Greater Heights OMT offers Myofunctional Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Feeding Therapy services for ages 0-21

Our Mission

Quality intervention and prevention strategies, with a focus on the whole-child, in order to support them in reaching their full potential and improve quality of life.

Welcome

Greater Heights OMT offers Myofunctional Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Feeding Therapy services for ages 0-21

Our Mission

Quality intervention and prevention strategies, with a focus on the whole-child, in order to support them in reaching their full potential and improve quality of life.

MYOFUNCTIONAL THERAPY

Specialized intervention for speech, eating, and/or swallowing difficulties that result from impaired or weak function of the orofacial complex (mouth, jaw, and other related structures). Also includes functional impairments caused by tethered oral tissues (tongue/lip ties).

SPEECH THERAPY

Intervention for late talkers, speech sound errors, childhood apraxia of speech, dysarthria, cleft lip/palate, voice/resonance issues, and other motor difficulties impacting speech production.

FEEDING THERAPY

Individualized treatment to address a baby or child’s struggles with breast/bottle feeding, transitioning to solid foods, picky eating/self limited diet, managing food in the mouth, swallowing problems (choking, gagging, aspiration etc.), or weaning from tube feeding.

MYOFUNCTIONAL THERAPY

Specialized intervention for speech, eating, and/or swallowing difficulties that result from impaired or weak function of the orofacial complex (mouth, jaw, and other related structures). Also includes functional impairments caused by tethered oral tissues (tongue/lip ties).

SPEECH THERAPY

Intervention for late talkers, speech sound errors, childhood apraxia of speech, dysarthria, cleft lip/palate, voice/resonance issues, and other motor difficulties impacting speech production.

FEEDING THERAPY

Individualized treatment to address a baby or child’s struggles with breast/bottle feeding, transitioning to solid foods, picky eating/self limited diet, managing food in the mouth, swallowing problems (choking, gagging, aspiration etc.), or weaning from tube feeding.

Speech, Feeding, and Myofunctional Therapy

Specializing in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment
of myofunctional, speech, and feeding/swallowing disorders, which can include:

  • Articulation disorders

  • Childhood apraxia of speech
  • Dysarthria
  • Cleft lip and palate
  • Chewing and swallowing difficulties
  • Picky eating

  • Tongue thrust

  • Tongue and lip tie

  • Neuromotor deficits

  • Medically complex cases and/or syndromes

Symptoms of OMDs

Symptoms of orofacial myofunctional disorders can be very obvious or happen over a period of time and be unclear. Certain habits or conditions can interfere with proper actions of orofacial muscles causing OMD. These muscles include cheeks, jaw, lips and tongue. When these muscles function incorrectly due to habits or conditions, it can lead to improper development. This atypical development causes the muscles to have incorrect adaptations and not work in balance which can cause a variety of problems.

  • Mouth Breathing
  • Orthodontic Relapse
  • Chronic Tension
  • Mood Disorders
  • Jaw Pain
  • Toxic Oral Habits
  • Tongue Thrust

  • Snoring or Sleep Apnea

  • Chronic Headaches

  • Grinding or Clenching Teeth

  • Swallowing Difficulty

  • Poor Posture

  • Chronic Fatigue or Poor Sleep

  • Tongue-Tie

  • Speech Problems

Feeding Therapy

Some children have swallowing problems, or dysphagia (dis-FAY-juh). Swallowing happens in three stages, or phases. A child can have a problem in one or more of these phases. They include:

  • Oral phase – sucking, chewing, and moving food or liquid into the throat. Feeding is a part of the oral phase.
  • Pharyngeal phase – starting the swallow and squeezing food down the throat. The child needs to close off his airway to keep food or liquid out. Food going into the airway can cause coughing and choking.
  • Esophageal phase – opening and closing the esophagus, or the tube that goes from the mouth to the stomach. The esophagus squeezes food down to the stomach. Food can get stuck in the esophagus. Or, a child may throw up a lot if there is a problem with the esophagus.

Issues in any one of these phases can cause problem feeding, picky eating, swallowing difficulties, and/or other disorders.

Signs of Feeding and Swallowing Disorders

Your child may have a feeding or swallowing disorder if he/she:

  • Arches their back or stiffens when feeding

  • Cries or fusses when feeding
  • Falls asleep when feeding
  • Has/had problems breastfeeding
  • Has trouble breathing while eating and drinking
  • Refuses to eat or drink
  • Eats only certain textures, such as soft food or crunchy food
  • Takes a long time to eat
  • Has problems chewing
  • Coughs or gags during meals
  • Drools or has liquid come out her mouth or nose
  • Gets stuffy during meals
  • Has a gurgly, hoarse, or breathy voice during or after meals
  • Spits up or throws up a lot
  • Is not gaining weight or growing