Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Myofunctional Therapy

Speaker: Nicole Goldfarb, M.A., CCC-SLP, COM® Course Description Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), ranging from snoring to sleep apnea, affects a multitude of individuals of all ages, from infancy to adulthood.  Importantly, in many cases sleep-disordered breathing and clinical markers for poor orofacial growth actually began in childhood and was undetected.  The negative ramifications of sleep-disordered breathing on health and development is profound, affecting nearly every cell in the body.  This lecture will highlight these negative consequences and introduce you to the role of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy in the management and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing through case studies and some of the most recent and riveting research around.  This lecture will open your mind to the idea that an orofacial myofunctional disorder is a clinical marker of sleep-disordered breathing.  In addition, a persistent and common problem in the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing is hy