5 Minute Tongue Exercises for Speech and Swallowing

Speech therapy lingual strength and range of motion exercises to aid with speech and swallowing. Designed for individuals who are recovering from stroke, Bell's Palsy, with Parkinson's, head and neck cancer or other neurologic conditions causing oral motor deficits. Follow along with these tongue exercises for a set that will leave your tongue sore!

Timestamp
00:00 Intro
00:26 Tongue Sweep
1:50 Protrusion/Retraction
3:10 Lateralization
4:34 Scrape
5:23 Push
06:20 Outro

~~~~Medical Disclaimer~~~~

All information, content, and material of this video is for general informational purposes only and is not intended to serve as a substitute for the consultation, diagnosis, and/or medical treatment of a qualified physician or healthcare provider. Never rely on information from this channel in place of seeking medical advice. You are encouraged to confer with your medical professional with regard to information contained in this video BEFORE completing these exercises. By performing any exercises, you are performing them at your own risk. ​Kasondra Vanpykeren is not responsible or liable for any advice, course of treatment, diagnosis, injury or harm you sustain as a result of these exercises and information in this channel.

Jingle by Sarah Hendricks
Background music: Barry Silverblatt (1st 2 songs), R. Woody Trevorrow (last).

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0:43 - tongue sweep
2:10 - protrusion/retraction
3:21 - laterization
4:48 - scrape
5:37 - push

[laurakalajdzic]

The music alone is a great reason to stop by! Loving it!!! Thank you!!!

[IanJDavies-mkib]

Great exercises keep them coming, i, m a stroke survivor and they are really helpful

[earthman]

These are great for anyone - and your presentation, the calmness and good hearted clarity are really valuable. I was just over at two different places that are about balance and stretching body, and they had tongue exercises to increase balance and physical performance lifting heavy weights.

[allenrobertson-bobwhitevin]

Kosandra, thank you for making these videos with step by step, follow-along, and timers for dysphagia. I am working with my wonderful speech therapist and using your videos to help me with her suggested exercises. Appreciate your work and the videos make this daily routine, easier to manage.👍

[EricaGraham-moqr]

Thanks for this video! One of the best ones out there. I do this twice a day.

[AshokKumar-inub]

It helped me a lot, thanks for teaching us Tongue Exercises, I am very grateful to you and i appreciate your work a lot.🥰

[derekterrell]

Those are good never done any of those I definitely feel it thank you

[StarOasis]

Thank you. I have expressive aphasia with dysarthria and I use a wooden spatula I got from the dollar store, sawed it in half so it's about 5 or 6 inches and push my tongue in and out to exercise my tongue for about 30 seconds. I have to do whatever it takes to get by because I have a lot of communication issues with aphasia. It works like Popeyes spinach, Popeye eats his spinach and then he becomes powerful with great strength and beats up Brutus. lol. I would say It helps 15 to 18% for about 5 or 10 minutes and that's a lot to keep me from slurring. It's just like physical therapy you have to work those muscles to get your legs going, why not do it to your tongue muscle to do the same exact thing? For those that are frustrated because they have dysarthria, maybe this will help them to try to get by.

[SuperFireater]

Thank you for helping me(77 years old) to speak better. At least now i can be understood. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[sabinevanliempd]

Thank you for your video's. I wish I had you as and learning when I was young!

[Actionelearning]

Bravo, these are helpful for strengthening Spanish speakers tounges to be able to articulation of English phonemes 👌🙌

[nuzwardysjahwil]

Thank you, it help me lot for my stroke recovery. I had stroke a month ago. This exercise to speak more clear. Regard Nuzwardy from Indonesia

[saundradavis]

I shake so bad doing these because my tongue is that weak.. But I know these exercises are going to be very beneficial to me.

[iamsophievictoria]

These are really helpful, thank you! 😊

[Remix-ofmg]

I have suffered from stuttering since childhood. I don't know whether it is related to psychological or physical factors. I haven't tried any exercises yet, but I will try these exercises and hope they will be beneficial for me. Thank you.

[AdityaDwivedi-qtzj]

Thank you very much mam
This is my 1st time to do

I will do it daily

[ruthmunalula]

Oooh glad i have found you 😢i lost my speech in unclear circumstances am a teacher, MRI and EMG for nerves all are normal this year clocks 2 years😢

[thecapecodder]

I have not been diagnosed after 12 doctors, can't initiation a swallow without great difficulty.. going to try these exercises!

[vp]

Thanks I just did this and it seemed to help :) I will carry on doing this and will plan my journey below (also to help motivate me to comeback lol). I'm doing this for speech improvements btw.

Day 1 - The bottom of my chin definetly does feel tighter.
Day 2 - The sides of my neck feel tighter today and my tounge does feel different compared to yesterday.