Hallie Bulkin argues myofunctional therapy is evidence-based, not pseudoscience. Studies show it helps with sleep apnea, swallowing disorders, and palatal changes, especially paired with expanders. Clinical outcomes improve when oral patterns are retrained, and basic screening fits within most clinicians' scope.
This one makes me crazy because there is actually decent research on myofunctional therapy for sleep apnea, for swallowing, for palatal changes, in combination with like palatal changes using palatal expanders and different approaches. It's not, maybe not as robust as some areas of speech pathology, but it does exist. And clinically, the functional outcomes speak for themselves. When you retrain oral myofunctional patterns, function improves, period. Families see it, Kids see it. Integrated therapists working in different domains of medicine see it, and it's now appearing in more and more research articles, which is exciting. Um, I want you to release all of these misconceptions because myo is functional, it's evidence-informed, it's within your scope, at least the screening and basic integration piece, right? And then you can get trained further to be able to do full-on myotherapy, and it's time efficient if it's done well.
What I Was Missing in Feeding Therapy: ARFID, Airway, and Myo with Samy Hernandez
