Eurotackle Z-Viber

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If you are interested in learning more about the development of mouth, feeding, and speech skills, here are a few suggestions: Caution: the Z-Vibe is NOT a toy. It is atherapeutic tool intended to be used by a professional therapist (or by parents trained by their therapist). Itcontains small parts (including a battery)that may pose a choking hazard: direct adult supervision is required at all times. Why It Works ARK is a family run business and all of the ARK products have been designed by Debbie Lowsky, MS, CCC-SLP , a speech-language pathologist. She has put her skill and 35+ years of experience into developing the most professional and effective oral therapy tools for children who are struggling with various issues. Today I have the exciting opportunity to share with you about oral motor and feeding tools from ARK Therapeutic!

This was recommended for my 10 month old from his feeding therapist! It is really helping him with feeding! We are able to use it at home while working on his feeding skills! The Z-Vibe provides a safe and effective way to work on the oral motor skills necessary to make speech sounds and to manage food. These skills include: lip/cheek/tongue awareness, lip closure, lip extension, jaw stability and grading, tongue and jaw dissociation, tongue elevation, tongue retraction and protrusion, tongue lateralization, and a tongue bowl. Using the Z-Vibe, therapists and caregivers can target specific movements within the oral cavity - physically demonstrating where the tongue, lips, and jaw should be for each skill. For specific exercises on how to improve these goals, consult our blog and Tips & Techniques for the Z-Vibe®& Z-Grabber®. My goal with this post is to walk you through the basics of some of ARK’s most popular oral motor products and highlight additional resources that will give you some helpful pointers for how to use each of these tools with the children in your life. Self-regulation: Some children are oral sensory seekers, meaning they seek input to their mouth to feel regulated and calm. Children who orally seek will frequently put objects in their mouths, chew on their clothing, etc. A Z-vibe is a great tool to provide that sensory input to a child’s mouth which over time can help to decrease oral seeking.Yes! ARK Therapeutic was founded with the desire to serve the special needs community with quality products to improve their quality of life. We are one of the only companies in the industry registered with the FDA, and our products are listed with the FDA and manufactured in the USA. ARK products are also medical grade, FDA compliant, and contain NO lead, phthalates, PVC, BPA, or latex. Does your child experience difficulty with feeding or oral sensory processing? If your child currently receives feeding therapy, occupational therapy, or speech therapy, a Z-Vibe might be a tool that the therapist will incorporate. So, what exactly is a Z-Vibe? Brush Tips - The soft version has gentle bristles for gum massage; the hard version has firmer bristles closer to that of a traditional toothbrush. These can be used to help get orally sensitive individuals more comfortable with oral care, so that they can eventually use regular toothbrushes, be more comfortable going to the dentist, etc. Z-Vibe are o viteză de vibrare abia perceptibilă și este însoțită de un accesoriu Probe. Orice alt accesoriu se poate atașa aceluiași mâner.Textura vârfului Probe transmite un stimul tactil care ajută să înlături aversiunile față de mâncare și normalizează sensibilitatea la anumite mâncâruri.

I have bought this several times and made the recommendation to my patients and families to use it at home in between therapy sessions. It is great for oral motor use in the therapy room or at home. While ARK Therapeutic makes many more oral sensory/motor products, I wanted to highlight the Z-Vibe and the Grabbers in this post since they are the staples of many oral motor intervention programs. Battery included (please note:this is a special Vibe Battery notsold in stores - we recommend buying a spare) Usually we recommend going with the softest/standard level by default. Unless someone chews through or causes damage to anything else they chew on (chews through pencils, chews holes in shirts, etc.), in which case the XT level would be longer lasting. Fine Tip - This tip narrows down to a fine point, which makes it perfect for pinpointing very specific areas in the mouth.

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A loved one of mine was having a hard time dealing with an oral fixation and this helped immensely! Preefer Tip - This tip attachment is rounded with ridges all along the circumference for when a "rolling" action is desired for a different kind of sensory input. Roll it over the lips, across the tongue, and inside the cheeks. Produsul are o vibrație ușoară care îl ajută pe copil să învețe pronunția corectă a sunetelor vibrante (j, r, z). De asemenea, vibrația ajută copilul să devină mai conștient de organele articulatorii: buze, limbă, obraji, maxilar, văl palatin componente esențiale în vorbire. Bite Tube Tip - These tips are similar to the Bite-n-Chew Tip, but with a hollow center so that you can put puréed foods (applesauce, yogurt, etc.) inside the tip for functional biting & chewing practice. Once you bite down on the tip, you get 'rewarded' with a taste of food.

Popette Tip - This tip attachment is an adaptor that lets you use lollipops with the Z-Vibe. Just twist the Popette Tip into the Z-Vibe handle, then press a lollipop into the Popette Tip. Lollipops are a fun way to get kids interested in sensory oral motor exercises. I’m a pediatric therapist and my son always has a resting open mouth. Already seeing a difference with all the things OT is telling to do.There are over 35 different tip attachments for the Z-Vibe®. The Z-Vibe comes standard with the original and still most popular Probe Tip. However, we also make a variety of other tips to work on more specific targeted goals. All of the tip attachments are interchangeable and compatible with any Z-Vibe® or Z-Grabber®. From spoons to toothbrushes to pencils and more, the same handle can shift goals simply by switching out one tip for another. ARK's Z-Vibe® is a vibrating oral motor tool for speech therapy, feeding therapy, and a variety of other applications. Recommended by speech and occupational therapists for 20 years, it's used to provide oral stimulation and tactile cues, to "wake up" the mouth,to decrease oral aversions and normalize oral sensitivities, to decrease drooling, to soothe, calm, focus, and self-organize, to improve oral motor skills, and much more.

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Would you like to earn a discount on ARK Therapeutic products? ARK has created a coupon code exclusively for Mama OT readers…hurray! Earn 10% off storewide at http://arktherapeutic.com with the code MAMAOT10 between now and the end of June 2014! If you’ve been around pediatric occupational therapy or speech therapy for any length of time, then you’ve probably heard of the Z-Vibe. It’s awesome! The pencil adapter screws into the Z-Vibe® like every other tip, and the pencils fit nicely into the adapter.