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Study explores infant body position and learning

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Study explores infant body position and learning A developmental psychologist at the University of California, Riverside, has completed a study that is the first to measure how often infants spend time in different body positions over the first year of life. Read more here:  Keep Reading >>


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Using Gross Motor for Oral Motor – How Trunk Turning Exercises Can Improve Tongue Lateralization by Debbie Lowsky, MS, CCC-SLP, owner & inventor  www.ARKTherapeutic.com

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The author, Debbie Lowsky, MS CCC-SLP gave permission for this article to reposted here. Looking at gross motor skills in relation to oral motor skills is an important concept. Developmentally, a child achieves trunk rotation before lateralization in the mouth. Therefore, It make sense that using exercises that develop rotation can help with the progression toward chewing. I also use rotation Keep Reading >>

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