PRACTICAL EXERCISES

Speech therapy for children with achondroplasia

Ballons

Inflate the cheeks with air and then squeeze them with the hands making a

quick explosion sometimes and others, a continuous pressure.

Take the tongue outside the mouth and make movements as if licking an ice cream and then put the tongue back inside and start over again.

Ice cream

Rabbit

Bite the lower lip with the overhead teeth repeatedly a make

a slight opening and closing of the mouth like a rabbit

Wall clock

Move the tongue from right to left as if it was a pendulum of

a wall clock.

Cake

Pass the tip of the tongue around the edges of the lips

with a circular motion like tasting the lips after desert

Dog

Pull the tongue out as if it was a tired dog and let it fall.

Phone

Vibrate the tongue inside the mouth making the sound "R"

with teeth together imitating the noise of a telephone.

Old-aged people

We imitate old-age people as if they had no teeth

Fish

Push our the lips to the maximum, then open and close them like a

fish. The teeth remain together.

Horse

Imitate the trot of a horse by chattering the tongue against the palate

Car

Vibrate both lips at once, making a working motor sound

Lion

Open the mouth to the maximum as if a lion roaring and

then close it alternately

PELOTA

Move the tongue up and down like a ball bouncing.

Ball

Fish

Push out the lips like fish and produced a strong occlusion-kissing sound

Candy

Tap the inner face of the cheeks with your tongue, as if it were a candy

Frog

Pull out the tongue and in very quickly as if a frog when eating a fly.

Mirror

All exercises must be performed in front of a mirror, in a straight

position and it can be used the help a tongue depressor, if

necessary.

Mouth wide open Mouth closed

Kisses Smile

Twisted kiss to the left Twisted kiss to the right

Upper lip press the

lower lip Lower lip press the

upper lip

Mandible to the right Mandible to the left

Bite the lower lip

Bite the upper lip

Inflated cheeks

Sucked face

Inflated left cheek

Inflated right cheek

Show all teeth

Hide all teeth

Chew to the right

Chew to the left

Lips ready to kiss

Lips for a smile

Tongue out

Tongue in

Tongue totally to the

right

Tongue totally to the

feft

Lick the upper lip

Lick the lower lip

Upper teeth outside

Lower teeth outside

Touch with the tip of the tongue

Touch with the tip of the tongue

Upper teeth inside

Lower teeth inside

Try to “ring a bell” by taking the tip of

the tongue as back as possible

Yawn

Belén Ojeda - Speech therapist

2012