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Debra Beckman provides intensive hands-on workshops for providers to learn the Beckman Oral Motor Protocol. View the course descriptions to the right.
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If you would like to host a Beckman Oral Motor Workshop please call Barbara McGowin at 407-590-4852 or email info@beckmanoralmotor.com
Beckman Oral Motor Assessment & Intervention Course Description
Oral motor impairment presents a variety of challenges for both the individual affected,
and for the care team providing intervention. Often the individual experiencing oral
motor difficulties is not able to follow commands. The person may not be eating or
taking fluids orally, which reduces the opportunities for observation of oral movement
patterns. The majority of baseline protocols currently available require at least
minimal direction-following skills. The protocol developed by Beckman uses mechanical
muscle responses, which are not mediated cognitively, to baseline the response to
pressure and movement, range of movement, variety of movement, strength of movement
and control of movement for the lips, cheeks, jaw, and tongue.
In this two day course
(16 contact hours or 1.6 CEUs), participants will actively participate in hands-on
practice for compensatory handling techniques for the following concerns: tonic bite,
tonic bite on a utensil, slow oral transit, tongue thrust, cough, gag and vomit.
The participants will complete an oral motor protocol with each other, analyze the
results, and discuss data tracking. The participants will also complete hands-on
practice for specific oral motor interventions to address the deficit areas discovered
during baseline assessment.
Additional topics of discussion may include: goal writing,
diet texture progression, tube to oral issues, adaptive mealtime utensils, oral hygiene
issues, medication administration issues, oral function for individuals with trachs,
facilitating improved articulation through oral motor techniques, research issues,
videofluroscopy issues for motorically involved individuals, and additional topics
of importance as determined by the participants. The information and techniques presented
are inclusive, and should augment the skills and knowledge base of each participant.
Participants: Licensed speech pathologists and occupational therapists
Instructional
Level: INTERMEDIATE - This program is offered for 1.6 CEUs (Intermediate level; Professional
area, knowledge of oral structures, muscles, and innervations).
Course Objectives:
Participants will:
Demonstrate assessment battery for determining oro-facial movement patterns using the Beckman protocol.
Demonstrate compensatory handling techniques.
Demonstrate oral motor interventions and treatment techniques.
Pre-Post Test Questions:
How does sensory input affect oral motor patterns?
How does gravity affect oral motor patterns?
What components must be assessed to determine oral motor function?
What interventions would increase secretion control and decrease drooling?
What interventions would decrease tongue thrust?
Beckman Oro-facial Deep Tissue Release Course Description
This is a one day course. Organizations that host or sponsor the Beckman Oral Motor
Assessment & Intervention© course may also schedule this course for presentation
the following day. Beckman Oral Motor Assessment & Intervention© is a pre-requisite
to the Beckman Oro-facial Deep Tissue Release© course. Sixteen (16) is the maximum
number of participants for this course.
During this course, participants will practice
specific deep tissue release for the upper and lower lips, upper and lower cheeks,
midface, jaw, and tongue. These interventions focus on increased range of movement
for these structures. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to review
techniques about which they have questions from the two-day course. Participants
are invited to bring videotaped case studies for discussion and problem solving.
Participants: Licensed speech pathologists and occupational therapists
Instructional Level: - ADVANCED - This program is offered for 0.7 CEUs (Advanced
level; Professional area).
Course Objectives: Participants will:
Demonstrate intervention options for mobility of the lips, cheeks, midface, jaw, and tongue using deep tissue release
Problem solve issues regarding client specific oral motor and mealtime concerns
Demonstrate oral motor assessment and intervention techniques as determined by the participants
Pre-Post Test Questions:
Where is deep tissue release pressure provided?
When is deep tissue release indicated?
How can the impact of deep tissue release be determined?
7:45 – 8:00 Registration
8:00 – 8:15 Pre-Test
8:15 – 10:15 Deep tissue releases for the lips
(hands on practice)
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00 Deep tissue releases for upper & Lower Cheeks (hands on practice)
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 – 2:30 Deep tissue releases for the jaw
(hands on practice)
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 4:00 Deep tissue releases for the tongue
(hands on practice)
4:00 – 4:45 Case studies, discussion
4:45 – 5:00 Post-Test
