Rebecca,
It is interesting to me that a treatment for snoring and sleep apnea is the use of voice exercises  similar to those used by singers. My daughter who is TTd snored as an infant and this was resolved through body work (Rolfing), but she is the only one of my children who ever gets sinus infections. She has taken voice lessons for many years and attends a high school for the arts where she has been a theater major. She has great difficulty projecting and you have to sit in the front at her voice recitals to hear her. I told her voice teacher at her school about her TT and he said "well, that explains a lot", which apparently it did in terms of projection. I am convinced that her voice lessons have been very beneficial in helping her overcome some of these challenges. BTW, no one who meets her thinks she has speech problems--she talked very early with an excellent vocabulary. I also did not know she was TTd until she was about 11 and she refuses to be clipped. 


Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA
Intuitive Parenting Network, LLC
 


Date:    Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:43:27 +0000
From:    Sato's <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: tongue tie/observation and speculation

Pat--interesting observations!

Because of my pre-mother/lactation life as a professional singer and  
vocal instructor, I notice speech patterns too.  What I notice is the  
lack of active tongue articulation in speech amongst native American  
English speakers, with compensatory over-articulation of the jaw.  I  
also notice the effect of retracted tongues in speech.  The language  
patterns of British English, French, German, Italian, to name just a  
few, typically involve a more active tongue and less jaw movement.   
This sets up all sorts of really interesting (to me!) muscle patterns  
throughout the vocal apparatus.  This would be of interest to us  
lactation people because this same apparatus is involved in swallowing.

So I'll continue the speculation--along with the idea of heredity and  
bottle-feeding allowing babies to survive with tongue tie that might  
have not survived earlier in history-what effect does language have on  
the evolving usage of the tongue?  Over time, how does the protective  
stance of a retracted tongue (fast flowing formula bottle) affect  
tongue development? How many generations are needed to see this sort  
of micro-evolution?

Rebecca Sato


 

 


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