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
- 26 Uses of Z-vibe
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/