Airway Guides

Is Oral Function Affecting Your Breathing, Sleep, or Development?

In a world where families are often told “everything is normal,” my goal is to offer education, hope, and guidance you can actually use.

These guides have been designed to help you spot patterns early, understand the connection between oral function and whole-body wellness, and feel empowered on your journey.

This resource library is a small part of my mission to create more awareness, more collaboration, and more clarity around airway health.

Choose a guide below and start exploring at your own pace.

The Airway Guide

A practical, evidence-based roadmap to better breathing, sleep, and whole-body health — from infancy through adulthood.

Breathing shapes how we grow, sleep, focus, and feel. Yet airway health is often overlooked until problems arise. The Airway Guide was created to help parents, caregivers, and adults understand the signs of airway dysfunction and take confident, informed action.

This 64 paged, comprehensive digital guide walks you through how oral function, tongue posture, breathing, sleep, and facial growth are all connected. Whether you’re supporting an infant with feeding concerns, a child with mouth breathing or orthodontic challenges, or an adult struggling with poor sleep, jaw tension, or fatigue, this guide offers clarity and direction.

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Inside, you’ll learn:

✅ What a healthy airway looks like and how facial growth is shaped by function

✅ How myofunctional therapy supports breathing, sleep, and stability

✅ The impact of oral habits, tongue and lip ties, and dysfunctional breathing

✅ How airway issues relate to sleep-disordered breathing, posture, digestion, and nervous system health

✅ When and how orthodontics, myofunctional therapy, and collaborative care work best together

✅ What parents can look for in newborns and infants, and who to turn to for support

✅ Actionable steps you can start at home to support better breathing and sleep

This guide is designed to empower, not overwhelm, giving you the education, tools, and next steps to advocate for yourself or your child with confidence.

✨ Perfect for parents, adults, and whole-health practitioners seeking a functional, airway-centered approach to wellness.

Your Guide to Breaking Oral Habits

A functional, compassionate approach to breaking oral habits—for good.

Oral habits like thumb sucking, prolonged pacifier use, nail biting, lip chewing, and mouth breathing often begin as comfort mechanisms—but when they persist, they can impact jaw growth, tongue posture, breathing, and long-term airway health.

The Oral Habit Elimination Guide was created to help parents move beyond sticker charts and willpower alone. Rooted in myofunctional therapy principles, this guide focuses on addressing the underlying functional reasons habits exist, so they can be replaced with healthy, sustainable patterns.

This guide empowers parents with education, tools, and simple strategies that support both emotional regulation and proper oral function.

CA $75

CA $99

Inside, you’ll learn:

✅ Why oral habits form and what they’re often compensating for

✅ How tongue posture, lip seal, and breathing influence habit persistence

✅ The most common mistakes families make when trying to stop a habit

✅ How to gently retrain oral muscles to support healthy rest posture

✅ Age-appropriate strategies to eliminate habits without force or punishment

✅ How to prevent habit replacement (when one habit stops and another begins)

✅ When professional support may be helpful for lasting success

Who This Guide Is For:

✅ Parents of toddlers and children struggling with oral habits (ideal for ages 4 and up)

✅ Families looking for a functional, airway-focused approach

✅ Parents who want to support jaw growth, breathing, and development naturally

Who This Guide Is Not For:

✅ Families seeking a quick, one-size-fits-all solution

✅ Approaches rooted in shame, punishment, or fear

✨ By addressing function first, this guide helps create long-term change—supporting healthier breathing, facial development, and confidence for your child.

Free Tools from Grey Bruce OMT

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Download the Oral Function Screener

A simple, parent-friendly checklist to help you identify early signs of low tongue posture, compensations, mouth breathing, and possible oral-motor dysfunction.

Perfect for children and adults who may be showing subtle clues that the airway, tongue, or oral rest posture needs support.

What’s inside:

✅ Quick 2–3 minute screening checklist

✅ Signs of restricted mobility

✅ Red flags for breathing + sleep

✅ Clear next steps if concerns are identified

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Download the Tongue Tie Screener

A simple quick checklist to help you identify if your tongue may be restricted and impacting oral-motor function, breathing, sleep and more!

Perfect for adults and children who may be showing signs that the tongue is not moving adequately and impacting function.

What’s inside:

✅ Red flags of possible tongue ties

✅ Easy tests to check range of motion

✅ When to address your concerns

✅ How MYO can help

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Sleep Hygiene Tips

Looking for some simple steps that you can implement right now, at home, to improve your sleep? Download this guide to uncover our top 9 tips for better sleep!

Sleep hygiene tips for any age. Your daytime and night routine significantly impacts your sleep quality.

What’s inside:

✅ 9 tips to support your best sleep

✅ Tools suggestions to support your sleep hygiene

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Download the Weekly Habits Tracker

Track the symptoms you see every day and uncover patterns that may be affecting breathing, sleep, oral function, and overall health.

This simple Weekly Habits Tracker helps parents and adults monitor common signs associated with orofacial myofunctional disorders (OMDs), including mouth breathing, snoring, grinding, poor sleep, drooling, speech concerns, and more. Sometimes awareness is the first step toward understanding that something deeper may be going on.

What’s inside:

✅ Track common oral and airway-related habits

✅ Increase awareness of breathing and sleep patterns

✅ Identify recurring symptoms and concerning trends

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Do you have symptoms that myofunctional therapy could help?

*The information on this website is for educational and informational purposes only, and should not be used as medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Grey Bruce Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy
(226) 678-8640
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📍Practicing within Hanover Physiotherapy & Sports Rehabilitation
140 7th Ave Suite 2, Hanover, ON N4N 2G9