Straws

Straw #4 in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult.

Straw #5 in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult.

Straw #6 in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult.

Straw #7 in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult.

Straw #8 in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult.

Straw A/B in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy.

Straw C in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy.

Straw D in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy.

Straw #1 in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult.

Straw #2 in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult.

Straw #3 in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult..

Straw #4 in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult.

Straw #5 in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult.

Straw #6 in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult.

Straw #7 in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult.

Straw #8 in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy. Straw #1 is the easiest, #8 is the most difficult.

Straw A/B in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy.

Straw C in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy.

Straw D in the Straw Drinking Hierarchy. The difficulty in drawing liquid through the straws increases as your child or client moves up the hierarchy.

These colourful lip blocks are designed for use with the TalkTools Straw Kit. This technique can be used with very young children, as well as with adults. Therapeutic straw drinking is an effective technique for achieving tongue retraction, lip protrusion and inhibiting tongue thrust, skills that are needed for speech clarity and feeding safety.

These colourful lip blocks are designed for use with the TalkTools Straw Kit. This technique can be used with very young children, as well as with adults. Therapeutic straw drinking is an effective technique for achieving tongue retraction, lip protrusion and inhibiting tongue thrust, skills that are needed for speech clarity and feeding safety.

This set of two colourful, spill-resistant cups comes with tight-fitting lids and are ready to use with our straw Hierarchy. Use the small cup for the shorter straws. Use the taller cup for the longer straws to prevent tipping. Helps teach the child to hold the cup, not the straw.

This colourful, spill-resistant cup comes with a tight-fitting lid and is ready to use with our straw Hierarchy. Helps teach the child to hold the cup, not the straw.

This colourful, spill-resistant cup comes with a tight-fitting lid and is ready to use with our straw Hierarchy. Helps teach the child to hold the cup, not the straw.

This colourful, spill-resistant cup comes with tight-fitting lid to fit the straws in the TalkTools Straw Hierarchy. Use this large cup for the longest straws to prevent tipping.

SafeSip fits virtually any drinking vessel. It keeps your drink in and everything else out. Price for one lid, blue colour.

Our latex-free flexible tubing is inexpensive, durable, and replaces the tubing supplied in our Honey Bear with Straw.

The Honey Bear is a TalkTools® original that allows you to control the flow of liquid into a child's mouth and encourages children to learn straw drinking. It is used by speech and feeding therapists around the world to teach lip rounding, tongue retraction and other oral-motor skills. It can also be used by toddlers to transition from bottle feeding to cup drinking. The flexible straw and the squeezable body of this cup make it the perfect tool to wean a child from bottles or sippy cups.

The Honey Bear is a TalkTools® original that allows you to control the flow of liquid into a child's mouth and encourages children to learn straw drinking. It is used by speech and feeding therapists around the world to teach lip rounding, tongue retraction and other oral-motor skills. It can also be used by toddlers to transition from bottle feeding to cup drinking. The flexible straw and the squeezable body of this cup make it the perfect tool to wean a child from bottles or sippy cups.

The ARK Therapeutic's Bear Bottle features a unique valve that controls the direction of fluid - liquid flows up into the straw, but does not flow back down. Simply squeeze the bear's belly until fluid reaches the top of the straw and release.

Big things come in small packages sometimes! The removable Select-Flow Valve can be barely seen in the bottom of the straw, yet it makes drinking from a straw much easier. Liquid goes up into the straw, but does not flow back down into the cup. In other words, the straw always stays "full" of liquid, so you don't have to draw liquid up the full length of the straw and only a very small amount of suction is required to take a sip.

The Drooling Remediation Program has a step-by-step approach that does not focus on behaviour but rather addresses the cause of drooling with a new set of eyes, Oral Placement Therapy. Possible areas of saliva control deficit include: body posture, sensory awareness, lip closure and saliva retraction. The fun, motivational OPT activities are suitable for both children and adults, and can be implemented by therapists as well as families.

Designed for parents of special needs children with speech or feeding difficulties, this kit includes the tools and information you need to start using OPT (Oral Placement Therapy) in your own home. If you have heard the success stories resulting from OPT techniques, but are unsure how to begin, this introductory kit is exactly what you have been looking for.