STRAW #1-in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy

This is the straw with the widest use in speech therapy: for breathing (exhalation and inhalation), oral respiratory track exercises and lip praxis skills development.

Groups of patients: Children with breathing and swallowing difficulties.

The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult. The hierarchy promotes jaw-lip-tongue dissociation. Straw is an excellent device for abdominal grading' training, lip protrusion and rounding, tongue retraction.

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