Pediatric Feeding Therapy for Tongue Tie
in Bentonville, AR
Simple tasks like swallowing, latching, or speaking can be difficult for children with tongue ties. This condition can limit the movement of your baby’s tongue, impacting their feeding and speech development. If your child struggles with nursing from the breast or bottle, it may be due to a tongue tie.
Our No Limits Pediatric Therapy team helps babies and children with tongue tie overcome feeding challenges for healthy growth and development. We can work with you to ensure your child gets the nutrients their growing body needs and even offer strategies to make feeding easier at home.
What Is Tongue Tie?
A tongue tie (also called ankyloglossia) is a condition where the movement of the tongue is restricted. This happens when the lingual frenulum, the tissue under the tongue that connects it to the mouth floor, develops unusually tight or short. This can limit tongue movement and make actions like sucking, swallowing, eating, and speaking difficult.
While some children with tongue tie may have only minor difficulties, others experience significant challenges that can affect their feeding and speech development. Sometimes, surgery may be needed to fix the tongue tie so that your baby can move their tongue freely. Other times, treatment from a feeding therapist can be enough to loosen the frenulum for more effective feeding and speech.
How Can Tongue Tie Affect Your Child's Development?
If left untreated, tongue tie can lead to several developmental and functional challenges, including:
- Difficulty breastfeeding, latching, or sucking from a bottle
- Slow weight gain due to feeding difficulties
- Speech delays or issues with pronunciation
- Feeding aversions or discomfort during meals
- Problems transitioning to solid foods or chewing
How Feeding Therapy Helps Children with Tongue Tie
At No Limits Pediatric Therapy, we address the unique needs of children with tongue ties to help them achieve critical developmental skills. Our feeding therapists will work closely with you and your child through a personalized therapy plan to help your child overcome feeding challenges associated with a tongue tie.
Through evidence-based stretches and exercises, positioning strategies for feeding times, and other proven methods, we can help your baby learn to feed more easily while they overcome their tongue tie. We aim to make feeding time a more enjoyable bonding experience for you and your baby. Whether your baby’s pediatrician recommends tongue-tie release surgery or not, we’ll work with you every step of the way to ensure that your baby can get the nutrients their growing body needs for a healthy and happy future with no limits.
Schedule a Free Consultation with Our Experts
Has your baby been diagnosed with a tongue tie, and you’re looking for treatment? Or do you think they might have a tongue tie, but you’re unsure? We can help! Our experts at No Limits offer a free 15-minute consultation to help you get answers fast.
During this consultation, we’ll discuss your child’s symptoms and challenges, answer your questions, and let you know if your child could benefit from feeding therapy with our team. Call (479) 250-9838 to schedule your consultation today!
