Foundations in Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy
London, U.K
June 20th, 21st, 22nd, 2025
Special In-Person Event
Royal Society of Medicine
Followed by 9 week virtual training in a 2025 Cohort
with Continued Mentorship & Support
LONDON, U.K EVENTS
June 20th, 21st 2025
Royal Society of Medicine
June 22nd 2025
Chelsea, London
We are thrilled to return to London to connect live with students of myofunctional therapy.
This special event launches our signature Foundations program.
Over the weekend in London, attendees will come away with a clear understanding of clinical markers for orofacial myofunctional disorders, using validated protocols and tools that are essential for putting together a complete myofunctional evaluation.
Our program continues online and beyond with mentorship and support.
On Sunday June 22nd, join for a hands-on all day experience that will advance the way you approach therapy and streamline your practice, while observing a live frenulum release surgery and tour of an airway focused practice in the area. Meet clinicians from around the world.
Friday, June 20th
8:30am Coffee & Tea
9:00am Introductions & Overview
Key Tenets of Myofunctional Therapy & Sciences
Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMDs): Clinical Markers & Phenotypes
10:30am Break
10:45 - Pathologies Related to OMDs
12:30 Lunch provided in the atrium
1:30pm Validated Protocols (Lingual Frenulum Protocols)
3:00 Break
3:15pm Tongue Inspection (Hands on Workshop)
5:00pm End
Saturday June 21st
8:30am Coffee & Tea
9:00am: Tongue Tie & Oral Structure Assessment
Gait, Chewing, Swallowing Assessment
10:30 : Break
10:45: Subjective Data Collection + Myofunctional Evaluation
12:30 Lunch in the atrium
1:30pm Treatment Prioritization
3:00 Break
3:15 Treatment Planning & Referrals
5:00pm End
*COCKTAIL EVENT in the EVENING inside Royal Atrium*
Sunday June 22nd, 2025
Chelsea, London
Myofunctional Tools, Tips, Practice & Implementation : Putting all the Pieces Together
Experience Myofunctional Mastery in London – A Hands-On Experience
🔹 Real Case Applications – Learn practical, real-world strategies to implement immediately.
🔹 Live Tongue-Tie Release Demonstration – See the process up close and in action.
🔹 Tour the Cutting-Edge Tongue-Tie Center in London – A rare opportunity to see specialized care in action.
🔹 Master Myofunctional Tools – Gain confidence in techniques that make a real impact on patient outcomes.
This third day is where things come together and you can network with providers of myofunctional therapy & sciences.
Morning Seminar (in Chelsea, London) Lunch, Live Surgery Demonstration, and Tour of Practice all included.
Meet other professionals who are practicing in the field.
Full 2025 Cohort Schedule
This event meets in London over three days, in person. You then matriculate into the cohort training of your choice.
Once you join the AOMT, you get continued access to our online events that span beyond the cohort, including clinical mentorship, a study club, guest lecturers, updated research, and an archive of our events searchable by key word. This is all included in the registration fee.
See the 2025 cohort schedule below.
FULL 2025 COHORT SCHDULEWhat Is Included in our Program
Our signature 9 week training program is a hybrid between an on-demand (self paced) course with modules described below.
For this special event in London, we invite you to launch our signature training in person over three dynamic hands-on days in London, and meet us online with your cohort to complete the training.
Introduction & Overview
What is a myofunctional disorder? How does this impact function over the life span? What are the key tenets in understanding the impact soft tissue has on bone?
In this section, Samantha will walk you through how Myofunctional Disorders progress if left untreated. She uses a real case study to follow the impact oral breathing has on the entire body over the life span.
Anatomy, Physiology & Pathology
With 11 modules dedicated to the physical structure of the orofacial complex, Licia Coceani Paskay outlines all the parts one needs to know when treating an orofacial myofunctional disorder. Come away with a deeper dive into Craniofacial bones, muscles, functions, and occlusion. Learn the functions around chewing and swallowing and early feeding. As an expert in the field, Licia's passion is sure to inspire.
Assessment
How does one evaluate for an orofacial myofunctional disorder? What validated tools can we use as clinicians? In this section, Samantha outlines how to observe tongue function, restriction, and how to gain more confidence in speaking with patients about what you observe.
Treatment
No one person is the same, so how does one begin the process of treatment? With so many functions at play in a myofunctional disorder, how can we begin to treat atypical swallowing, open mouth posture, or noxious oral habits such as thumbsucking? This module outlines dozens of therapeutic techniques which are applied in a systematic approach to the treatment of OMDs. Come away with an accessible approach to treat patients, and a clear guideline of the goals and objectives of exercises as they are scheduled in a full year of treatment.
CoMorbidities
So many patient cases come with complex comorbidities, so how does the therapist address these while working on treatment for a myofunctional disorder? In this section, Joy Moeller reviews the dos and don'ts in cases where TMD, OSA and other conditions are present. You'll learn via case studies and how to focus on the OMD as you apply treatment.
Practice Management
Foundations of knowledge are critical, but so is the business of doing treatment. In this section you will hear how Joy started, how she collaborates, what she has learned in the 40 years of doing therapy, and how you can be the very best therapist you can be by following clear business and practice management guidelines to be a viable and sustainable business.
Current Research
In the last 15 years, the research in myofunctional therapy has been remarkable: with one paper in 2009 that looked at oropharyngeal exercises, Brazil set the stage and the world of sleep medicine took notice. In this section you will review key papers and how to review research. As an AOMT student you will have access to a curated collection of papers that are cornerstones of myofunctional therapy and sciences that gets updated with new publications as they emerge.
Mentorship & Support
What distinguishes our training is not just the excellence in the material and its organization, but the continued support students receive when they register with the AOMT. Each week we hold online sessions with Office Hours, where clinicians bring in cases and ask questions. On Saturdays we run a study club called the Myo Coffee Klatsch which features guest lecturers, current research, updates to the field, and a community that carries you on your journey as you learn and implement Myofunctional therapy. Our community is dynamic, interdisciplinary, and passionate.
AOMT-C® Certification is eligible to our AOMT students who have trained in the 69 hour Foundations course.
Royal Society of Medicine
launch of AOMT training
This weekend grants a special live in-person experience including a Saturday cocktail event, a visit to an airway focused clinic, and networking opportunities with clinicians practicing myofunctional therapy.
If you are serious about practicing myofunctional therapy, this full program is essential information, with continued resources and events that will cement your studies in this dynamic and growing field.
Foundations in Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy
A unique, in-depth, interactive, and thorough educational experience. Experts in the field of orofacial myofunctional therapy teach every aspect of this therapeutic approach. Intended for Speech Language Pathologists, Dental Providers, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists and allied health professionals.
Presented by the Academy of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (AOMT)
The AOMT is the leading post-graduate training academy for allied health professionals who want to treat orofacial myofunctional disorders.
- We are committed to providing the strongest foundation in the field of orofacial myofunctional therapy.
- Our curriculum is based in the latest evidence-based research.
- Pioneering leaders with decades of experience.
- We have an extensive referral network, so that you can receive new patients from doctors in your local area.
- Ongoing support in our mentorship program which meets weekly online. The program does not end after nine weeks, it simply launches your next phase of implementation with our guidance and support .
Meet Our Instructors
Samantha Weaver, MS, CCC-SLP, AOMT-C®
As the lead teacher of this course, Samantha brings her innate passion for storytelling, case study development, and a desire to empower clinicians with tools that treat orofacial myofunctional disorders (OMDs) to the program. She created and runs The Myo Coffee Klatsch, the weekly AOMT study club, with over 200 events and guest speakers in an archived format. She also runs weekly Office Hours as an additional benefit for members of the AOMT community. As the director of the AOMT, she has designed the courses offered, helping to facilitate the latest evidence based research which touches on breathing reeducation, sleep disorders, TMJ disorders, posture, fascia-release, and frenulum inspection and surgery. She holds two Bachelors, one in Performance Studies (Northwestern University) and one in Communicative Disorders and Sciences, and a Masters of Science in Communication Disorders and Sciences. Samantha is a founding board member of the Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences (AAMS) which has led the world with conferences focusing on this dynamic niche field.
Licia Paskay, MS, CCC-SLP, AOMT-C®
Licia graduated from Padua University (Italy) in speech therapy, from Antioch University, Los Angeles with a BA in Gerontology and from Cal. State U. Northridge with a Masters Degree in Communication Disorders and Sciences, but she never stopped learning and pursuing education.
Licia is a licensed Speech Language Pathologist in California (with an emphasis in Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy and the management of cognitive disorders) treating patients of all ages, mostly affected by dysphagia or orofacial myofunctional disorders, but also by Multiple Sclerosis, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
She found the perfect mixture of inspiring professionals at the Academy of Orofacial Myofunctional therapy (AOMT) where she is currently a Board Member and lecturer and where she has the chance to collaborate and exchange ideas with some of the most remarkable professionals in the world.
Joy Moeller, BS, RDH, AOMT-C®
Joy Moeller, BS, RDH, AOMT-C is a dental hygienist, author and formally an associate professor at Indiana University, who has worked as a myofunctional therapist for many years and currently has a private practice in Pacific Palisades, California.
Joy is founding lecturer with the Academy of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (AOMT) and a founding board member with the AAMS. She has taught post- graduate courses in Myofunctional Therapy at universities and hospitals world-wide. Joy wrote a chapter in Sleep Medicine Clinics, a chapter in Sleep-Disorders in Pediatric Dentistry, a chapter in Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, a textbook for Oral Surgeons in 2021 and a children’s book on tongue position as well as many published studies and other chapters in textbooks.
Joy has lectured world-wide and was invited to speak at Grand Rounds at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to Stanford Sleep Residency program and was the first myofunctional therapist to be on staff at the Pankey Institute. She currently teaches with the Palo Alto school of sleep medicine and taught for 7 years with UCLA dental sleep post-graduate program and the Pedo-Ortho residency. Joy received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the AAPMD (American Academy of Physiologic Medicine and Dentistry) and the Louis Pasteur Award from the AAMS (Association of Applied Myofunctional Sciences) in Rome in 2013.
Doris Waite, RDH, AOMT-C®
Doris graduated Dental Hygiene from George Brown College in Toronto in 1978 and moved to Owen Sound in 1979 to start working for a certified specialist in orthodontics. She has worked in general practice until 1992. A graduate of the AOMT Myofunctional therapy course in 2012, and later, Buteyko Breathing Educator certificate in 2012, Doris retired from ortho practice in 2013 and began private practice doing myofunctional therapy and Buteyko Breathing Education ever since. She has lectured in China for two weeks in November 2019, speaking to dentists and orthodontists on myofunctional therapy, tongue restrictions and TOTs. Doris is the first student to be certified at the AOMT. She loves gardening, photography, travel, professional basketball and baseball.
Marc Moeller, BS
Marc Richard Moeller, Managing Director of the Academy of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (AOMT), and Executive Director and Founding Board Chair of the Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences (AAMS), has spoken on Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (OMT) in 28 countries to date and supported the facilitation of research, public health projects, clinical protocols, and curriculum development in OMT with over 50 universities, hospital groups, and governments around the world.
Marc is also a Director of Communications of the Stanford Sleep Epidemiology Research Center. Since 2011 Marc has been on a Public Health Committee of the Teste de Linguinha (Frenulum Inspection Protocol) organized out of Brazil that has helped medically validate frenulum inspection protocols for infants (Martinelli) and adolescents/adults (Marchesan) that has passed 18 laws (including a national law in Brazil effective since January 2015) requiring frenulum inspection at birth for newborns.
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Live Instruction
Each cohort follows a 9 week schedule with live meetings online, that continues with ongoing mentorship.
As an attendee of this program, you will choose which 2025 cohort you want to join (July, September, November). Attendees receive materials including a course manual and myofunctional therapy supplies. We take you through the experience of applying myofunctional therapy with your own body and building a case study.
All students are eligible to apply for our certification program, to become an AOMT-C® Certified Myofunctional Therapist.
Pricing Options
Our Goal is Your Success
Our program aims to build confidence through repeated exposure to the course material with an invitation to join in at any time in a future cohort session on zoom. We are dedicated to updating our material with clinical findings and research so that your foundation in myofunctional therapy is constantly up to date and on the edge of science. As passionate clinicians and educators, we are committed to your ability to treat patients and help others!
Answers To Your Questions
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Are You Going To Join Us?
Myofunctional Therapy and Sciences is proving to show enormous benefits with more and more research that supports its treatment. You are coming to the table at the right time!
With our live event teaching, networking events, curated online program, and certification eligibility, you will gain the benefit of ongoing mentorship and the community to support you as you apply this dynamic modality to your patient population.
We invite you to dive in as soon as possible. This is the first step in what is sure to be a dynamic and gratifying career as you help so many people.
Join us today to get the answers you need and the knowledge to support your journey in Myofunctional Therapy and Sciences! You will NEVER look back!
