Feeding / Drinking

ARK's Bear Bottle Kit is a fun and friendly way to make drinking easier for beginners and/or children with oral motor difficulties. It's also an excellent way to transition babies straight from bottles to straw drinking - skipping sippy cups altogether! Most sippy cups...

Kids Tableware Talk about dreamy! With beautiful cloud shapes and soft colours, My Happy Helper’s lovely range of natural bamboo fiber tableware will make meal times a breeze. The beauty of bamboo fiber tableware is that it doesn’t easily absorb odours or stain, so...

ARK's Z-Vibe® is a vibratory oral motor tool that can help build oral tone and improve a variety of speech, feeding, and sensory skills. Use it to provide a varied sensory experience and/or to provide targeted tactile cues within the oral cavity. Its gentle...

Get the best of both worlds with ARK's Z-Grabber® - an innovative oral motor tool that combines the benefits of both the Z-Vibe® and the Grabber®. Enjoy all the versatility of the Z-Vibe® plus the added bonus of a chewable "Grabber" loop attached to the handle....

ARK's One-Way Straws make drinking easier for individuals with a weak suck, oral motor difficulties, and/or problems generating and maintaining suction. Each straw features a built-in valve that controls the direction of fluid one-way - fluid flows up into the straw, but does not...

ARK's Lip Blok® mouthpieces are simple yet effective oral motor tools.  They naturally exercise the mouth muscles to discourage tongue-thrusting, promote tongue retraction, and correct overall tongue positioning. They also prevent individuals from biting the straw or putting it too far into their mouths.  Simply press them...

ARK's Preefer Tip is one of the most popular tip attachments for the Z-Vibe®. It features a cylindrical design with long ridges along its circumference - perfect for when a "rolling" action is desired. Roll it over the lips, across the tongue, inside the...

ARK's Popette Tip is an adaptor for the Z-Vibe® that lets you add vibration to the use of lollipops, Toothettes, and DentaSwabs.  Lollipops are a fun, effective, and tasty oral motor therapy tool for oral awareness and lip/tongue exercises.  Toothettes and DentaSwabs are spongy therapy tools commonly...

ARK's proSpoon™ was specially designed by feeding therapist Debbie Lowsky, MS, CCC-SLP to support easy feeding and food removal for young children.  The size and shape of the spoon bowl are "just right" - big enough to hold an appropriate amount of food, but small enough...

Take a bite out of feeding therapy with the Right Bite! For individuals with feeding issues, the ability to visually judge food and take an appropriately sized bite can be a difficult task. Invented by Jaci Dale, MS, CCC-SLP and developed by ARK Therapeutic,...

ARK’s proButton™ Set is a fun and engaging way to work on lip closure and lip strength, fundamental skills needed for proper speech and feeding development. Speech therapists have been doing a "button pull" lip closure activity with their clients since the 1970s by tying...

Written by Debra Lowsky, MS, CCC-SLP, the speech-language pathologist who invented the Grabber®, this book explains how, when, and where to use the Grabber® and other ARK chew tools to work on feeding development.   Topics covered include: Mouthing & Oral Exploration The Concept of Biting...