THE “BREATHER BETTER, LIVE BETTER” E-BOOK
You want to help your child or your clients breathe better and live better!
This ebook gives you the knowledge, skills, and exercises you need
Mouth breathing is a big deal
When your child, your client, or even you breathe through the mouth instead of the nose, it can cause a lot of problems, like:
✔ Learning and behavioral issues
✔ Brain fog
✔ Fatigue
✔ ADHD-like symptoms
✔ Facial and posture changes
✔ Sleep disorders
The good news? Myo Therapy is designed to get to the root cause of the issue and support healthy breathing, sleeping, and living!
But most people (even specially trained SLPs) don’t know much about what Myo Therapy is or how it works. That’s why I created this ebook!
The Breathe Better, Live Better ebook includes
Easy to understand information about Myo Therapy
Advice + guidance from renowned experts in related fields
Tools + exercises you can use to help kids or clients breathe better
A healthy life starts with a healthy mouth.
This ebook is written to help parents, SLPs, and professionals understand the world of Myo Therapy and learn the skills, techniques, and exercises to support children’s healthy breathing.
Inside this book, you will find…
Inside Breathe Better, Live Better you’ll find a collection of the step-by-step breathing exercises I use with my clients during Myo therapy sessions.
I show you how to complete each exercise, along with images of what it should look like and the purpose behind each exercise.
This gives you the ability to start using what you’ve learned to practice immediately, either with your child or clients!
…Instant access to breathing exercises
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Get familiar with the key concepts we will cover in this course. We’ll highlight disorders from tongue thrusts to low tongue rest posture, mouth breathing, and tethered oral issues, as well as the epigenetic factors that can cause these problems. Learn about tongue ties from the tongue tie specialist Dr Scott Siegel. Learn to optimize infants and toddlers airways from Dr Anna Gross.
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Learn about the different stages of sleep and how disruptions to these stages lead to different challenges. We’ll go over sleep-disordered breathing and the different way it presents in children. Learn about airway disorders from Dr Victor and Sydney Avis of Airway Revolution Foundation.
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Get familiar with the nasal structure and dig into all the life-changing benefits of breathing through the nose instead of the mouth.
Learn how to teach children about nasa breathing from Buteyko breathing instructor Patrick McKeown.
Learn about sleep and airway from the internationally known ENT/Sleep surgeon Dr Saroush Zaghi.
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Get familiar with noxious oral habits like thumb sucking, prolonged pacifier use, and nail biting. Learn why these habits happen and how you can specifically target noxious habits to successfully terminate them.
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Meet the active chewing device that is amazingly powerful at improving oral tone in babies, toddlers, children, pre-teens, teens, and even adults.
Learn about the lost art of chewing from Dr Mary Bourke. In addition Dr Bourke teaches about reflexes and the Myo Munchee.
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PLACEMENT OF ARTICULATION
Discover how the tongue is supposed to move when speaking, while exploring how crucial stability is for improved articulation and speech. You’ll get specific skills for helping with the /r/ sound and sibilants.
THE LISP & /R/ DISTORTIONS
Master the skills required to analyze frontal and lateral lisps so you can target the right cause, differentiating between jaw-based and tongue-based therapy.
STRUCTURAL INFLUENCES ON ARTICULATION
Get familiar with the oral structure problems that influence articulation, how those problems present in children, and what is needed for intelligible speech.
Learn from Dr Leonard Kundel about the influence of jaw development on airway and sleep.
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This Module will teach you what is assessed in order to make an OMD diagnosis, including the key areas to examine and the one most important part of an evaluation. You’ll also learn about the structural, functional assessment, as well as chewing and swallowing assessment.
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We’ll get into the nitty-gritty details of what myofunctional therapy is, what the goals of this specific type of therapy are, and what the focus of myofunctional therapy should be. Walk through some of the key research to see why this type of therapy works and how it can impact your clients or patients.
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Learn what types of exercises to focus on, how to build intrinsic and extrinsic motivation with your patients or clients, and how to structure the therapy exercises. You’ll learn how to guide a child through each of the detailed exercises as well as how to talk to children about the importance of nose breathing for their own health. There will be video demonstrations for many exercises as well as a handout for reference and instructions.
If you have a child who struggles with mouth breathing or clients who aren’t making meaningful progress… this is the book for you!
Breathe Better, Live Better is packed with easy-to-understand information, helpful visuals, practical tips and techniques, and breathing exercises you can start using immediately.
Whether you’re an experienced SLP who wants to learn more about Myo or a parent who wants to support your child, this book is the perfect starting place!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hi, I’m Dina MS, CCC-SLP, COMⓇ
I’m a New York State licensed and certified Speech Language Pathologist and Certified Orofacial Myologist (COM) with 7 certifications, hundreds of hours of specialty training, a decade of teaching, and two decades of experience working with children and adults with communication, feeding, and orofacial myofunctional disorders.
I saw how many parents and SLPs were getting frustrated because they didn’t have the knowledge or understanding of Myo, so I decided to put my knowledge and skills into this ebook! It’s accessible and easy to understand, so you don’t have to be a specialist to learn from what’s inside.
You will also have the opportunity to learn from other specialists and doctors, including:
Dr. Zhagi, a Harvard-educated ENT and sleep surgeon
Dr. Kundel, a dentist in Stamford, CT
Dr. Mary Bourke, a chiropractor, SOT certified Craniopath, and CEO of Myo Munchee
You don’t have to become a Myo specialist in order to help your child or client breathe better and make meaningful progress!
With Breathe Better, Live Better you will have the information, skills, and techniques you need to support a healthier, happier kid.