In this session, the presenter will demonstrate and teach the techniques she has developed in her work with teens and adults to improve oral hygiene, speech clarity and feeding safety. Acquired diagnoses, such as post CVA and TBI, as well as Down syndrome and cerebral palsy will be addressed. The inter-active techniques taught in this session can be used by the clinician, caregiver and/or client in the health care facility or home environment to improve muscle control in abdominal grading for increased statement length, mobility in the velum to reduce hyper-nasality, jaw grading, lip closure/rounding and tongue retraction to improve speech clarity. Techniques to improve the oral preparatory phase of swallowing will also be included. Research in this area suggests that improving lingual strength through a sensory motor exercise approach not only aides in swallow rehabilitation, it may also improve dysarthric speech indirectly (Robbins, 2010, 2013). Three video case studies will be presented.