Tongue-Tie & Palate Evaluation Procedures

12 Modules | 3 Months
Instructor(s): Dr. Martin Rosen, Dr. Nancy Watson
CEU Hours: 6
Enrollment Deadline: April 20th, 2026
First Class: April 27th, 2026

Tongue-Tie & Palate Evaluation: Essential Cranial Procedures for the Chiropractic Practice

Tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) and palatal distortions can have a profound impact on cranial development, airway function, latching, speech, posture, and neurological integration—especially in infants and young children.

In this targeted online course, you’ll learn how to accurately evaluate and address tongue-tie and palate imbalances using safe, gentle, and effective cranial techniques. You’ll gain insight into how oral and cranial restrictions affect the entire body—and how to support optimal outcomes through chiropractic care.

This training empowers chiropractors to play a critical role in identifying dysfunctions early, guiding parents through care options, and offering structural corrections that often reduce the need for more invasive procedures.

What You’ll Learn

  • Detailed evaluation protocols for tongue, lip, and buccal ties
  • Visual and manual assessment strategies for high, narrow, or distorted palates
  • Step-by-step cranial techniques to support palate expansion and normalize oral function
  • How to recognize compensatory patterns affecting the jaw, cranium, and spine
  • Guidance for collaboration with other birth and oral health professionals

Resources Provided

  • Video class modules
  • Evaluation & technique presentations
  • Practical demonstrations
  • Calls to action (CTAs)
  • Complete PDF workbooks
  • Full transcriptions of video classes
  • Email access to Dr. Rosen & Dr. Watson

Why Take This Course?

  • Early identification and correction of tongue-tie and palate issues can prevent long-term problems with feeding, breathing, speech, and neurological development
  • Chiropractors are uniquely positioned to identify structural dysfunctions that are often overlooked in traditional screenings
  • Hands-on protocols you can implement immediately to support both infants and children in your practice

Who Is This Course For?

Chiropractors who want to:

  • Elevate their pediatric care with advanced cranial and oral assessment tools
  • Provide non-invasive support to families navigating tethered oral tissue diagnoses
  • Integrate functional cranial corrections into a neurologically-based chiropractic practice

Tongue-tie and palate distortions don’t just affect the mouth—they influence the entire cranial and spinal system. This course gives you the tools to assess and address these patterns confidently, improving outcomes for your youngest patients and their families.

Course Contents

12 Modules | 12 CTAs

Class 1 – Cranial Anatomy and Landmarks

Class 2 – Cranial Bone Motion

Class 3 – The Dural Meningeal System and CSF

Class 4 – Anatomy and Movement of the Palate

Class 5 – Evaluation of the Palate

Class 6 – Dural Meningeal Evaluation of the Palate

Class 7 – Palate Distortions and Cranial Bone Relationships

Class 8 – Corrections for Palate Distortions

Class 9 – Sphenobasilar Mechanics and Evaluation

Class 10 – Palate Corrections and Fruit Jar Techniques

Class 11 – Tongue-Tie

Class 12 – Palate Contacts for Intra-Oral Corrections and the Sphenomaxillary Suture

Meet the Instructors

Dr. Martin Rosen, DC, CSCP, CSPP & Dr. Nancy Watson, DC, CSP

As early as first quarter in chiropractic school they were attracted to each other’s commitment to chiropractic and the pursuit of excellence.  Their combined 80 years of personal and clinical and teaching experience, in delivering the chiropractic adjustment is unparalleled in the chiropractic profession.  Their international outreach through teaching, writing and lecturing has been a driving force in their personal and professional careers since their first seminar taught together as students, in 1979.

Their years of experience have taught them what works and what does not work to create a successful practice and lifestyle. The more competent and comprehensive your expertise you will find that more patients will seek your services and your practice will grow exponentially.

Feedback From Our Students

  • Dr. Melonie Schoenherr

    I always share Peak Potential with all my IBCLC students. I do not want to teach my students how to adjust because I would be reinventing what you all have worked so hard to do! This particular class I would suggest to my students because this is the key to helping moms and babies breastfeed. The main three points from this class would be what I learned about tongue tie and function, palate correction and lastly how these exams and adjustments are crucial for newborn breastfeeding babies. (Bottle fed babies actually need this even more given the different mechanics that do not develop with bottle fed babies.)

    I think with being the go-to IBCLC and chiro in my area, I could make a living off of JUST correcting the sphenoid and getting the baby to the breast. Obviously, I take a holistic approach to the whole body through SOT, but this class was the cherry on top to what I have already learned from your other classes.

    Peak Potential courses are a core value at this point in my practice. If a potential new associate does not want to put the effort into these courses, then they are not a fit for my patients. We use your techniques all day every day primarily with breastfeeding babies.

    Absolutely. I do recommend this program. This class is a must for anyone caring for infants especially in the first few months of life. So many chiropractors in my area are not addressing cranial issues and profess that upper cervical adjustments are enough. It is so frustrating that our profession does not embrace that we should always be learning, expanding and refining our adjusting skills especially when it directly affects the activity of daily living (breastfeeding) for babies!

    Thank you! Thank you for paying it forward to our profession especially when teaching can be more frustrating than fruitful in our field!

  • Alison Day, DC

    “I found it very helpful to review what was taught with the call to actions. It also serves as a nice workbook to look through for key highlights of each topic. I also enjoyed the diagram that went along with some of the adjusting protocols for a better visual of finger contact. The handouts that are typed up are helpful as well to be able to review what was talked about outside of the PowerPoint slides.

    I personally have had two children with tight oral tissues and cranial distortions and it was helpful to get a peace of mind of corrections that could be made and alterations that are possible. I also take care of a lot of families specifically for breastfeeding and now I have a better understanding of how to adjust for palate distortions which are affecting the infant’s ability to get a good latch.

    I was struggling with how to correct for the sphenobasilar distortions because before I was not correcting them intraorally and now that I have more knowledge on the contact points to look for I was able to get more movement in the joint and see the release happen in my infants in practice.

    I have taken a few cranial adjusting classes and every time I hear something that I missed before which was the missing link to something I had been struggling with. I grasp a better understanding around cranial adjusting and the nuance in the distortion patterns.”

  • Kim Baker, DC

    “This program has lots of information set out in an easy way to learn.

    Professionally it’s given me more tools for my assessment with babies. It will require time to feel confident with my adjusting skills but I’m excited about implementing the information I learned.

    I’m assessing more palates than ever before and noticing improvements with latches a bit quicker than before.”