TalkTools® Level 1: 3-Part Treatment Plan for OPT Oral Placement Therapy - online course
About Course:
This introductory course to (Oral Placement Therapy) is the foundation for TalkTools training and is integrated throughout all of their courses. OPT is a type of oral-motor therapy that targets specific movements needed for speech and feeding. The "3 parts" of OPT are: auditory and visual sensory systems COMBINED WITH tactile -- and propioceptive -- sensory systems. TalkTools training applies a unique, hierarchical approach to OPT, focused on a measurable, results-driven path for both therapists and clients across all ages and diagnoses with the goal of: speech clarity, improved feeding, independence, and improved QUALITY OF LIFE
This interactive, hands-on course includes highly motivating activities targeting the abdomen, velum, jaw, lips and tongue. Techniques learned can be readily implemented across many therapy environments -- private practices, hospitals, schools and home.
Participants will be able to:
- Assess oral placement/feeding/speech problems based on muscle systems.
- Integrate hierarchies for motor dissociation and grading (jaw-lips-tongue).
- Formulate programs of therapeutic intervention to address physiological and motor-based speech disorders.
- Apply at least 10 new therapy techniques.
- Demonstrate oral placement techniques to improve individual speech clarity and production.
The course is delivered in Arabic and English combined
Course Booklet:
Course Presenter:
Dr. Rehab Zaytoun
Dr. Rehab Zaytoun is an Associate Professor of Phoniatrics at the Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University. She graduated from Kasr Al-Aini, Cairo University, earning her Master’s degree in Communication, Swallowing, and Voice Disorders in 2011 and her Medical Doctorate in 2015.
Dr. Rehab is extensively trained in pediatric speech, language, and feeding disorders. She is Hanen-trained (It Takes Two to Talk, More Than Words, Talkability), PROMPT-certified (among the first in the Middle East), and the first TalkTools Level 4 certified assessor in the Middle East. She is also a TalkTools instructor and speaker in the MENA region.
Her expertise includes neonatal feeding (NOMAS-certified), oral motor and sensory-based feeding therapies (Beckman, SOS), orofacial myology, literacy and language processing programs (Lindamood-Bell, Orton-Gillingham), reflex integration, and voice therapy (LSVT).
Dr. Rehab currently heads the Speech and Language Department at the Learning Resource Center (LRC) in Maadi, owns CliniCare private practice in Cairo, and serves as a visiting consultant at ABLE UK Dubai. She is a frequent speaker at local and international conferences.