Tongue-Tie & Palate Evaluation Procedures
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
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Module 01 Cranial Anatomy and Landmarks
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Module 02 Cranial Bone Motion
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Module 03 The Dural Meningeal System and CSF
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Module 04 Anatomy and Movement of the Palate
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Module 05 Evaluation of the Palate
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Module 06 Dural Meningeal Evaluation of the Palate
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Module 07 Palate Distortions and Cranial Bone Relationships
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Module 08 Corrections for Palate Distortions
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Module 09 Sphenobasilar Mechanics and Evaluation
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Module 10 Palate Corrections and Fruit Jar Techniques
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Module 11 Tongue-Tie
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Module 12 Palate Contacts for Intra-Oral Corrections and the Sphenomaxillary Suture
Meet the Instructors
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
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Dr. Margaret Ready
Having this knowledge and understanding of the mechanics is a necessity to be able to offer care to this population. If you are going to work on babies, this course is essential.
I practice more as a bodyworker than a chiropractor and your course helps remind me that I am a chiropractor and touch down with that.
I use these tools every day. The majority of my practice is newborns with feeding issues.
Of course I would recommend this course and I do
I have taken your in-person program as well and have the books, but these little videos have worked the best for me.
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Elizabeth Sanchez, DC
“The material is broken down in digestible pieces, the videos are short and can be watched multiple times, material is applicable in practice.
My son had tongue tie and the program has allowed me to work on him and many other babies.
I recently worked on a newborn with severe plagiocephaly and tongue tie utilizing these techniques with great success
Love the classes; hope to see them in a hands-on class soon.”
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Amber Salomoun, DC
My three takeaways:
1. Lots of great tools to add to the mind and someone’s practice. 2. Information starting from the basics which is very helpful. 3. The call to actions are very helpful in addition to the videos.This course has helped not only educate me but also gain confidence as a chiropractor when it comes to palate work. It has given me more confidence as a chiropractor. It has helped me to be able to educate my patients and give them lots of information that they need about themselves or their child.
I would absolutely recommend this course! It helps with easy learning starting from the basics and having different ways to gain knowledge for different types of learners and that is very helpful.
Thank you for all of your knowledge and taking so much of your time to be able to share that with others. It is important that more providers in our field can be educated on this and I am grateful that I was able to take this course.
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