Develop a deeper understanding of normal swallowing, feeding development, and swallowing dysfunction across the lifespan. This module helps you recognize tongue thrust, inefficient chewing, airway-related compensations, and the relationship between swallowing patterns, posture, and overall body stability. By learning to distinguish normal from dysfunctional patterns, you will be better prepared to identify when myofunctional therapy is appropriate and when interdisciplinary referral is needed.

Develop a deeper understanding of oral restrictions involving the lingual, labial, and buccal frena, and how they may influence feeding, speech, swallowing, airway health, and craniofacial development. This module teaches you to evaluate oral ties through both anatomy and function, understand classification systems and surgical considerations, and recognize the role of myofunctional therapy before and after release procedures. By approaching oral ties through an interdisciplinary and evidence-based lens, you will be better prepared to identify meaningful restrictions and support optimal functional outcomes.

Understand how prolonged oral habits can influence craniofacial growth, airway health, dental development, and oral function. This module helps you identify the difference between normal developmental sucking behaviors and habits that persist due to underlying issues such as airway obstruction, oral restrictions, sleep disturbance, or poor oral posture. By learning to evaluate the root cause of these habits, you will be better prepared to guide habit elimination, support functional change, and make appropriate interdisciplinary referrals.

Understand how palatal expansion can support craniofacial development, improve tongue space, and enhance nasal breathing and airway function. This module introduces airway-focused orthodontic principles, expansion appliances used in children and adults, and the difference between dental expansion and true skeletal expansion techniques such as MARPE and MSE. By learning how expansion influences facial growth, oral posture, and treatment planning, you will be better prepared to collaborate with orthodontic providers and support patients undergoing expansion.

Explore the relationship between oral function, airway stability, and sleep-disordered breathing through an airway-focused myofunctional lens. This module examines the role of the tongue, oral muscles, anatomy, and neuromuscular control in snoring and obstructive sleep apnea, while introducing evidence-based myofunctional therapy, sleep surgery concepts, and diagnostic tools such as DISE. By understanding both structural and functional contributors to sleep-disordered breathing, you will be better prepared to support interdisciplinary care and apply more individualized treatment strategies.

Explore temporomandibular disorders through a functional, airway-centered, and whole-body perspective. This module helps you understand TMJ anatomy, common TMD presentations, and the relationship between jaw pain, posture, cervical mechanics, breathing patterns, and airway dysfunction. By learning how to recognize contributing factors and collaborate with physical therapists, dentists, and other specialists, you will be better prepared to support patients with TMD through more comprehensive and individualized care.

Understand the role of orthognathic surgery in correcting skeletal discrepancies that affect airway function, jaw balance, facial symmetry, and oral function. This module explores surgical procedures, recovery considerations, and the essential role of myofunctional therapy before and after surgery to support healing, reduce compensation patterns, and retrain function. By learning how structure and function work together, you will be better prepared to support patients through surgical preparation, rehabilitation, and interdisciplinary care.

Explore how hypermobility and connective tissue disorders can influence oral function, airway stability, wound healing, and treatment outcomes. This module helps you recognize the unique presentation of hypermobile patients, understand how conditions such as EDS and HSD may affect tethered oral tissues, and adapt therapy and post-surgical care with greater precision and compassion. By taking a whole-body, interdisciplinary approach, you will be better prepared to support these complex patients safely and effectively.

Understand how airway health, sensory processing, primitive reflexes, and early oral function influence development in young children. This module explores play-based myofunctional strategies, the relationship between airway dysfunction and sensory regulation, and how retained primitive reflexes may affect posture, behavior, learning, and oral motor skills. By recognizing these early developmental patterns, you will be better prepared to support children with age-appropriate, individualized, and interdisciplinary care.