Oral Placement Therapy

Oral Placement Therapy is a speech therapy which utilizes a combination of:

• Auditory stimulation
• visual stimulation
• Tactile stimulation to the mouth to improve speech clarity

OPT is an important addition to traditional speech treatment methods for clients with placement and movement deficits.It is a tactile-proprioceptive teaching technique which accompanies traditional therapy. Traditional therapy is primarily auditory and visual.Clients with motor and/or sensory impairments benefit from tactile and proprioceptive components because speech is a tactile-proprioceptive act.