This advice-column-style blog for SLPs was authored by Pam Marshalla from to , the archives of which can be explored here. Use the extensive keywords list found in the right-hand column on mobile: at the bottom of the page to browse specific topics, or use the search feature to locate specific words or phrases throughout the entire blog. The oral-motor movement began in this decade in schools, hospitals, and clinics.
These were clinical ideas born of the exchange of information, not research results. The term oral motor came along as we added the discussion of oral movements for feeding and speech into the mix. The term came about as a natural outcome of team discussions. Therapists were attending many multiple-day seminars on this material, they were sharing information across disciplines, and they were reading whatever publications came along.
This was a time of tremendous expansion of ideas related to oral movement. Again, this was clinical information, not research reports.
Some of these seminars were recorded, transcripts were produced, and the bound material was sold to tens of thousands of therapists who were working worldwide. Suzanne Evans Morris. Morris was a speech-language pathologist who had studied dysphagia under Jerilyn Logemann, did her doctoral research on infant feeding development, and studied neurodevelopmental treatment NDT with Karl and Berta Bobath the developers of NDT in England.
As Dr. Morris finished her PhD on feeding development, she began to teach seminars and the term oral-motor began to have regular use. According to Dr. In approximately we went into the demonstration phase of the project in which we selected 10?
