Oral Motor Play Ideas and Sensory Play Ideas
Reflux Rebels have some good ideas for oral motor play and sensory play to help children with problems that affect their willingness to feed, have their teeth brush, touch textures.
The link is:
http://www.refluxrebels.com/Oral_motor_play.html
The desensitisation for teethbrushing is particularly helpful as there's not much information about for this sort of problem. Some ideas are:
- Use vibrating toothbrush
- Count teeth using toothbrush or long food item
- Make music by tapping food in between upper and lower teeth
- Put vibrating toy on cheek
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