Oral Motor Delay Treatment in Gurgaon

Oral motor therapy in Gurgaon works on the muscles and coordination used for eating, drinking and speaking. The centre is in Gurgaon itself. If your child coughs, gags or distresses when eating, that is worth an appointment promptly rather than eventually.

Our Gurugram centre

eMbrace Gurugram is at 710, DLF City Court, Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road, Nathupur, Sector 24, Gurugram 122002. Guru Dronacharya on the Yellow Line is roughly 700 metres away, which makes this one of the few specialist child psychology services in Gurugram you can reach without a car.

That matters for families coming from DLF Phases 1 to 4, Sushant Lok, Sector 54 and the sectors around it, and it matters again for teenagers who would rather come to a session independently than be dropped off by a parent.

Delhi families sometimes choose Gurugram over our Delhi centres simply because the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road run is easier from where they live than crossing south Delhi. Either centre is fine, and the same pathway runs at both.

Weekly to start, often reducing quickly once a home routine is established. Feeding work is unusual in that progress is measured at your own table rather than in our room, and mealtimes happen several times a day, which is where the repetition comes from.

For parking, the nearest drop-off point and the quickest route at your particular time of day, ask on the intake call. Traffic and parking around every one of these centres change enough through the day that current directions from someone who works there beat anything we could fix on a web page.

When oral motor therapy helps

This sits between speech and feeding, because the same muscles do both. It is worth an assessment when eating, drinking or speech sounds are affected by how the mouth is working rather than by what a child understands or intends.

• Coughing, gagging or distress during meals, which warrants prompt attention at any age
• A very narrow range of accepted foods or textures, beyond ordinary fussiness
• Drooling well past the usual age, or an open mouth posture
• Speech sounds that are unclear because of tongue, lip or jaw movement rather than language
• Feeding difficulty after cleft repair, or with cerebral palsy or low tone

The clinical detail sits on our oral motor therapy page.

What the first appointment involves

An assessment of the structures and their movement, and wherever possible watching your child actually eat or drink, because that shows things a clinic task will not. We take a feeding history and check what has already been tried. You leave with a plan aimed at mealtimes, not at exercises for their own sake.

What we see most of

Gurugram families reach this at our Delhi centres, and the commonest reason is a toddler with a very narrow range of accepted foods where ordinary fussiness has been ruled out, or unclear speech traced to tongue and jaw movement rather than to language.

Who you would see at our Gurugram centre

Dr Supriya Malik, Founder and CEO, and Head of the Child Development Centre at Rainbow

PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Birmingham, where she was also a postdoctoral researcher, and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society in the UK. She designed the assessment and therapy pathways every eMbrace centre runs.

Oral motor and feeding work needs hands-on assessment and our speech and language pathologist is based at the Delhi centres, not at Gurugram. Gurugram families travel to Malviya Nagar or Vasant Kunj for this, and we will tell you which is closer on the intake call.

Schools and services we already work with

Feeding and oral motor work around Gurgaon usually runs alongside other services, and these are the settings involved.

Our Malviya Nagar centre runs inside Rainbow Children's Hospital, New Delhi, which is why occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy, behaviour therapy and special education sit in the same building as assessment.

Fees and how long it runs

Fees are quoted upfront on your intake call. Blocks are usually shorter than for other therapies, because once a home routine is working the frequency drops quickly.

Feeding work tied to a structural or neurological cause runs longer, and we say which of those you are looking at rather than letting you assume the shorter one.

Frequently asked questions