[tri-med] oral motor question

I have a question for all those out there with oral
motor issues.  Is it possible for a child to go from
being hypersensitive orally to hyposensitive? I think
this happened to Morgan.  I was talking to one of his
speechies yesterday and she said she had recently read
an article that stated that kids who like a high
degree of oral stimulation are really hyposensitive in
their mouths.  This is Morgan, he loves having his
teeth and tongue brushed.  He loves the Nuk brush in
his mouth and on this tongue.  But when he was much
smaller his mouth was pretty sensitive.  He did NOT
like textures in there and we had to work a long time
to let him let us get the Nuk brush in there.  He put
his tongue up in the roof of his mouth whenever we
tried to put anything in their with the exception of
smooth foods.  How come we didn't reach a happy medium
before getting hyposensitive? Or is it possible that
his mouth was never hypersensitive, he just wasn't
used to having anything in it as he was tube fed and
didn't take a pacifier?

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Holly- wife to Mike, mom to Morgan Jubal (5 now!!) PT18q & Bonnie Blue,  
australian shepherd/corgi mix
Des Moines, IA USA
http://www.geocities.com/hmmmcormick/index.html

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