Myofunctional Therapy Home Exercise Checklist
A weekly tracker for tongue posture, lip seal, and nasal breathing exercises commonly prescribed in therapy.
Myofunctional therapy works the way physical therapy works: the appointment is where you learn, and home is where the change happens. Muscles retrain through short, frequent practice, and a program only moves as fast as the daily reps.
One honest note before the tracker. Your specific exercises come from your therapist, because programs are built around your mouth, your goals, and your progress. This page doesn't prescribe exercises. It helps you actually do the ones you've been given.
The three anchors, all day
Whatever your program includes, nearly every plan is building toward the same resting habits. Check in on them at red lights, during ads, whenever you think of it:
- Lips together, without effort
- Tongue resting up on the palate, tip just behind the top front teeth
- Breathing through the nose, quiet and low
Weekly practice tracker
Print this page and mark each session you complete. Most programs ask for two short practice blocks a day; follow whatever your therapist assigned.
| Day | Morning practice | Evening practice | Posture check-ins |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Saturday | |||
| Sunday |
Making it stick
- Tie practice to something you already do every day: after brushing teeth, before dinner, on the drive to school
- Keep sessions short and done rather than long and skipped
- For kids, make it a two-minute game with a sticker on the tracker, not a chore
- Missed a day? Mark it and move on. Streaks are nice; totals are what count
Bring this to your appointments
A filled-in tracker tells your therapist exactly where the program stands. If practice keeps not happening, say so. That's not failure, that's information, and a good therapist will adjust the plan to fit real life.
This is education, not medical advice. Every child is different, and nothing here replaces an evaluation by someone who has actually seen yours. If something on this page sounds familiar, bring it to your pediatrician, dentist, or a qualified therapist.