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 vibration provides a new level of sensory stimulation to increase oral focus and draw more attention to the lips, tongue, cheeks, and jaw. Vibration can also be very calming, soothing, and organizing.
The tips are:
Probe Tip: ARK's Probe Tip is the most versatile tip attachment for the Z-Vibe®. Its rectangular shape features three different surfaces: bumpy, striated, and smooth. Use it to provide varied sensory input to the gums, palate, cheeks, tongue, and lips. It can also be used to provide targeted tactile cues during oral motor therapy.
Preefer Tip: 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 cheeks, etc. This sensory input helps "wake up" the mouth and increase oral awareness for individuals with hyposensitivities. Or, it can help decrease oral defensiveness and food/texture aversions for individuals with hypersensitivities.
Mini Tip: ARK's Mini Tip is a smaller version of the Probe Tip - our most versatile tip attachment for the Z-Vibe®. Its smaller size is perfect for babies and toddlers, and its rectangular shape features three different surfaces: bumpy, striated, and smooth. As such, the Mini Tip provides a varied sensory experience as you stroke and apply gentle pressure to the gums, palate, cheeks, tongue, and lips. This sensory input can help "wake" up the mouth and increase oral awareness for individuals with hyposensitivities. Or, it can also help decrease oral defensiveness and food aversions for individuals with hypersensitivities.
Fine Tip: Need to isolate a specific spot? Use ARK's Fine Tip! This thin tip narrows down to just about the size of a pencil tip in diameter - perfect for providing tactile oral placement cues and directing the articulators during speech or feeding therapy.
Spoon Tip: ARK's Spoon Tip attachments turn any Z-Vibe® into the ultimate sensory feeding tool. When used with the Z-Vibe handle, the Spoon Tips can help "wake up" the mouth, increase awareness, and provide stimulation to the lips, tongue, cheeks, and jaw. A wonderful tool for any sensory mealtime treatment plan, these Spoon Tips have helped many therapists and parents get tube-fed children on their first solid foods.
Tongue Tip: Use ARK's Tongue Tip for the Z-Vibe® as a tongue exerciser for lateralization and elevation. Instruct the individual to place his/her tongue tip inside the hole, then gently guide the tongue up and down or left and right to establish the concept of elevation and lateralization, both of which are important oral motor skills for speech and feeding development. It can also be used as a tongue scraper for dental hygiene and oral awareness.
Textured Bite-n-Chew Tip XL: ARK's Textured Bite-n-Chew Tip XL is a tip attachment for the Z-Vibe® specially designed to work on biting and chewing oral motor skills. At 6.5 cm total in length (5 cm long when inserted into a Z-Vibe handle), this tip can reach all the way to the back molar area for chewing exercises and/or for sensory input. Use it promote a sustained bite, develop jaw strength and stability, practice rhythmic and rotary chewing, and more. It can also be used outside the mouth on the cheeks and lips for added stimulation.
Brush Tip: ARK's Brush Tips turn any Z-Vibe® into the ultimate sensory toothbrush. The Soft Brush Tip (blue) has pliable bristles, which allow for gentle gum massage Use it for tactile and proprioceptive input to the tongue, cheeks, palate, and lips during oral stimulation and/or dental care. When used with a Z-Vibe or Z-Grabber handle (sold separately), the added vibration can have a soothing and calming effect for individuals with sensory issues.
Tongue Depressor tip: A great addition to your sensory oral motor toolbox! Use it to examine the oral cavity, work on mid-tongue elevation, back of tongue elevation, lip closure, etc. It can also be used to provide sensory input to a large surface area of the tongue.
