Chatterton MyoProgram™ Credentialing Course
Learn to Use the Chatterton MyoProgram™ With Your Clients
Chatterton MyoProgram™ Credentialing Course
Learn to Use the Chatterton MyoProgram™ With Your Clients
More than Just a Certification
The Chatterton MyoProgram™ is a 10 lesson protocol that helps you take your clients from diagnosis of orofacial myofunctional disorder (OMD) through a comprehensive therapy plan, and guide them to successful generalization.
The Chatterton MyoProgram™ credentialing course provides 3 days of hands-on training to fully prepare you to use the Chatterton MyoProgram™ with your clients. Throughout this course, you will learn how to properly identify orofacial myofunctional disorders, how to conduct a full orofacial myofunctional evaluation, and how to successfully lead your client through the 10 step program. You will leave this course ready to treat your first OMD client!
All participants will have access to the program resources, including evaluation forms, clinician and client protocols, and all 10 therapy lessons within the Chatterton MyoProgram™, for 24 months after the completion of the course.
Participants who select the Myo Proficient or Myo Mastered course packages will also receive continued mentorship throughout their first year as a credentialed Chatterton MyoProgram™ therapist.
Chatterton MyoProgram™ credentialing course is currently not available to individuals who practice within 100 miles of Boise, Idaho.
You can learn about the course instructors and their disclosures HERE.
Join In-Person
This 3-day course is hosted at the Center for Orofacial Myology in Boise, Idaho
Upcoming Dates
February 2 - 4, 2023
June 22 - 24, 2023
August 10 - 12, 2023
November 2 - 4, 2023
Earn ASHA CEUs
The MyoProgram™ credentialing is offered for 2.45 ASHA CEUs
The 3-Day Intensive Course Will Cover:
- Structure and function of orofacial musculature
- History of MyoProgram™ and the field of orofacial myology
- Full orofacial myofunctional evaluation observation, review, and practice
- Noxious oral habits
- Tethered oral tissue classification, functional range of motion, and evaluation
- The role orofacial myofunctional disorders play in airway and facial development
- Barriers, causes, and characteristics of orofacial myofunctional disorders
- Normal vs. abnormal dental occlusions
- Characteristics of typical and atypical oral phase swallowing
- Skills to modify and adapt therapy for your patient’s needs
- Overview of the comprehensive and progressive orofacial myofunctional program, including detailed instruction and practice with tools to aid success
Chatterton MyoProgram Course Agenda
Time
Topic / Activity Description
7:30a - 8:00a
Check-in and breakfast
8:00a - 8:30a
Website overview:
Disclosures and history of Chatterton MyoProgram™ / Chatterton Myo Courses™
8:30a - 9:15a
Introduction to orofacial myology
9:15a - 10:00a
Facial Development of Individuals with Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (Facial Characteristics and Dental Malocclusion)
10:00a - 10:15a
Break
10:15a - 10:30a
Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders impact on swallowing function
10:30a - 11:30a
Introduction to Tethered Oral Tissue
MTOT assessment measurement of tethered oral tissue
11:30a - 12:00p
Review of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Lingual Muscles
12:00p - 12:45p
Lunch
12:45p - 2:45p
Myofunctional evaluation process
2:45p - 3:00p
Break
3:00p - 5:00p
Myofunctional evaluation process, continued
5:00p - 6:00p
Observation of live patient evaluation
Time
Topic / Activity Description
7:30a - 8:00a
Check-in and breakfast
8:00a - 8:30a
Myofunctional evaluation review
Goal writing exercise
8:30a - 9:00a
Chatterton Myo Courses™ App introduction and instruction
9:00a - 10:00a
Chatterton MyoProgram™ Lesson 1
Chatterton MyoProgram™ Lesson 2
10:00a - 10:15a
Break
10:15a - 12:00p
Chatterton MyoProgram™ Lesson 3
Chatterton MyoProgram™ Lesson 4
12:00p - 12:45p
Lunch
12:45p - 2:45p
Chatterton MyoProgram™ Lesson 5
Chatterton MyoProgram™ Lesson 6
Chatterton MyoProgram™ Lesson 7
2:45p - 3:00p
Break
3:00p - 6:00p
Chatterton MyoProgram™ Lesson 8
Chatterton MyoProgram™ Lesson 9
Chatterton MyoProgram™ Lesson 10
Follow up session outlines
Time
Topic / Activity Description
7:30a - 8:00a
Check-in and breakfast
8:00a - 8:45a
Therapy Review –group practice time and teaching time (individual lessons per group to teach and demonstrate)
8:45a - 9:45a
Pre and post Frenuloplasty Exercises, Wound Management and Care
9:45a - 10:00a
Detail packages, discuss products in the store, and online resources
10:00a - 10:45a
Making Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy Successful via Teletherapy
10:45a - 11:00a
BREAK
11:00a - 11:45
The Rule of Thumb! Thumb sucking and finger sucking program
11:45a - 12:15p
Sequential Process of Therapy with referral sources (action items for each step of establishment)
12:15p - 12:45p
LUNCH
12:45p - 1:00p
Who to have in your network
1:00p - 3:00p
Marketing — How to Storybrand your business, schedule and plan a lunch and learn
3:00p - 4:00p
Course Review
Questionnaire
Course Packages
Myo Emergent Package
$1995
- Attend 3 day, intensive course
- Access to course materials for 24 months after course completion
- Access to the Chatterton Myo Courses™ app for 24 months after course completion
Myo Proficient Package
$2500
- Attend 3 day, intensive course
- Access to course materials for 24 months after course completion
- Access to the Chatterton Myo Courses™ app for 24 months after course completion
- Mentorship review of up to 8 videos by a Chatterton Myo Courses™ certified clinician within 12 months of course completion
Myo Mastered Package
$2750
- Attend 3 day, intensive course
- Access to course materials for 24 months after course completion
- Access to the Chatterton Myo Courses™ app for 24 months after course completion
- Mentorship review of up to 8 videos by a Chatterton Myo Courses™ certified clinician within 12 months of course completion
- Two 30 minute mentor consultations each month for 12 after course completion
Frequently Asked Questions
The MyoProgam™ Course is open to any Speech-Language Pathologists with at least 2 of years of experience. You do not need any other certification prior to taking our course. The course is not available to individuals within 100 miles of the Center for Orofacial Myology, located in Boise, Idaho.
The MyoProgram™ credentialing process is as follows:
Attend the 3 day Chatterton MyoProgram™ credentialing course in Boise, Idaho
Hand in the course evaluation
Complete and submit 5 essays in your student portal
Submit one case study, from evaluation to followup, including video submissions and full evaluation report
If you fail, you may submit one more case study
If you pass, you become Chatterton MyoProgram™ credentialed!
Yes, the MyoProgram™ credentialing is offered for 2.45 ASHA CEUs.
No, all attendees must work towards becoming Chatterton MyoProgram™ credentialed.
Chatterton Myo Courses™ reserves the right to cancel an event due to low enrollment or other circumstances which would make the event non-viable.
If Chatterton Myo Courses™ cancels an event, registrants will be offered a full refund.
Refunds will be made to the person or entity that paid for the event, and will be issued within 14 days following the cancellation of the course.
Due to limited seating, you must submit your cancellation request at least 10 business days before your scheduled course. This gives us the opportunity to fill the vacated spot before the course begins. If you must cancel your course registration, we will refund your registration fee in full, provided that your cancellation request is submitted 10 or more business days prior to the course start date. Refunds will be processed within 14 days of the receipt of the cancellation request. If your cancellation request is submitted fewer than 10 business days prior to the course start date, you will forfeit the full course registration fee.
Chatterton Myo Courses™ is committed to providing an outstanding learning experience. We would like to know if you feel that your course was unsatisfactory in any way, however we can not provide refunds once the refund policy date has passed. We will take all suggestions seriously and implement them, as appropriate, into our future courses. We will continually strive to provide high quality learning experiences to all course participants.
