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Vibing with Z-Vibe’s

June 1, 2021 By admin

Z- Vibe

What is a Z-Vibe?

  • A tool to help provide targeted tactile cues within the oral cavity
  • Vibrating tool for oral motor therapy
  • Normalized sensitivities to improve a variety of speech and feeding skills
  • Used for low oral tone, oral defensiveness, and/or texture aversions
  • The use of the vibration provides sensory stimulation to increase oral focus

 

 

 

Z-vibe can work on the following:

  • Articulation
  • Biting & chewing skills
  • Closure of the lips
  • Drooling
  • Elevating tongue
  • Feeding therapy
  • Gum massage
  • Handwriting
  • Improving singing skills
  • Jaw grading
  • Keeping tongue retracted
  • Lollipop oral motor exercises
  • Moving tongue side to side
  • Need to chew on non-few items
  • Oral motor exercises
  • Pocketing food
  • Quickening the acceptance of different food textures
  • Requiring the tongue to work independently from the jaw
  • Strengthening and stabilizing the jaw
  • Toothbrushing
  • Using tactile cues and oral simulations
  • Vibration
  • “waking up” the mouth and decreasing oral sensitivities
  • Yoga of the mouth

 

 

For More Information Visit the following links:

  • Oral Motor Exercises
    • https://www.arktherapeutic.com/blog/oral-motor-exercises-with-the-zvibe/
  • 26 Uses of Z-vibe
    • https://www.arktherapeutic.com/blog/26-uses-for-the-zvibe-from-a-to-z/

 

Link to Z-Vibe products:

  • https://www.arktherapeutic.com/z-vibes/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwwLKFBhDPARIsAPzPi-JpUH-qP0T2eJjA_gC-Ddhk5s8i_c3am8P4sHcOX9v07bvVIIiA_vAaAu1QEALw_wcB
  • https://www.arktherapeutic.com/z-vibes-all/

 


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