Wondering If Your Child's Mouth Breathing, Oral Habits, Sleep Challenges, or Speech Concerns Are Connected?
Your instincts may be telling you there's more to the story.
Maybe you've noticed your child sleeps with their mouth open, snores at night, struggles to break a thumb-sucking habit, or isn't making the speech progress you expected. Perhaps you've heard terms like tongue tie, tongue thrust, or airway issues but aren't sure what they mean—or whether they apply to your child. If you've ever felt like something is being missed, you're not alone.
The Root Cause Course: What Every Parent Needs to Know About Tongue Ties, Oral Habits, & Airway Health
Created by Amanda Mavrakos, M.S., CCC-SLP, Orofacial Myofunctional Therapist, and owner of Salt & Light Speech-Language Resources.
A simple, parent-friendly roadmap that helps you understand how these issues connect and what steps you can take to support your child's health, development, and long-term success.
Inside This Course, You'll Learn:
✔ Why mouth breathing matters and what signs to watch for
✔ How tongue ties can impact feeding, speech, sleep, and oral development
✔ The hidden effects of thumb sucking, finger sucking, and other oral habits
✔ How sleep, breathing, and oral function influence one another
✔ Practical next steps you can take with confidence
By the End of This Course...
You'll stop wondering if these challenges are connected and start understanding why they happen.
You'll have a clearer picture of what's going on, know what questions to ask, and feel confident taking the next step for your child. No medical background required. Complex concepts are explained in a way that's easy to understand and apply.
Founding Member Pricing
Join today for just $37
Founding member pricing is available through July 31st.
Price increases to $67 on August 1st.
You've Finally Found Someone Who Gets It.
That nagging feeling that something isn't quite right? Trust it. You've spent hours Googling at midnight, left provider appointments with more questions than answers, and advocated for your child in rooms where nobody connected the dots.
You were made to know your child better than anyone else in the room and you don't have to figure this out alone anymore.
I see you and I'm so glad you're here.
Does Any Of This Sound Familiar?
✓ Mouth breathing during the day or night
✓ Open-mouth posture
✓ Snoring or restless sleep
✓ Thumb or finger sucking
✓ Tongue thrust
✓ Delayed speech progress
✓ Picky eating or chewing concerns
✓ Crowded teeth or orthodontic concerns
✓ Concerns about a tongue tie
✓ Wondering if these issues are connected
If you found yourself nodding to several of these, you're not alone. Many parents notice these patterns long before anyone helps them understand how they fit together.
Here's What Changes When You Finally Have the Full Picture:
You'll finally understand why your child's speech, breathing, oral habits, sleep, and oral development may be connected—and what that means for their health and future growth.
Those daily patterns you've been noticing will start to make sense.
Instead of wondering what to do next, you'll know which questions to ask, which providers may be helpful, and how to confidently advocate for your child.
No more midnight Googling.
No more second-guessing your instincts.
Just clarity, confidence, and a practical path forward.
Not Quite Ready?
Start Here for Free.
If you're not quite ready to enroll, I still want to help.
Download the free Root Cause Parent Starter Guide and start connecting the dots for your child today.
It's a six page clinical guide covering the signs and patterns I see most often in my practice that go unaddressed for years.
No pressure or obligation, just real information from a specialist who genuinely wants to help.
Who This Course is For
This course was created for parents who:
✓ Suspect something deeper may be contributing to their child's challenges
✓ Have heard terms like tongue tie, tongue thrust, airway, or oral habits and aren't sure what they mean
✓ Have been told to "wait and see" but still have concerns
✓ Want to better understand the connection between speech, breathing, sleep, and oral development
✓ Want to feel more confident advocating for their child
If that sounds like you, you're in the right place.
So What Exactly Is The Root Cause Course?
The Root Cause Course is a five-module parent education course built around one simple idea:
The speech concerns, oral habits, mouth breathing, sleep struggles, and tongue tie questions you're seeing in your child may not be separate problems. They're often connected.
This course helps you understand how those pieces fit together so you can stop guessing and start moving forward with confidence.
Designed specifically for parents, the course provides practical education, observation tools, and a clear framework for understanding what may be happening beneath the surface.
While this course is not a diagnostic tool and does not replace a professional evaluation, it will help you feel more prepared, informed, and confident when deciding on next steps for your child.
Here's What You'll Find Inside:
MODULE 1
The Big Picture
Understand how speech, oral habits, breathing, sleep, and oral development work together—and why treating symptoms alone often misses the bigger picture.
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Clarity Check
MODULE 2
Oral Habits
Understand how oral habits affect development and learn how to identify when a habit may be impacting speech, breathing, oral function, or orthodontic growth.
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Clarity Check
MODULE 3
Mouth Breathing, Airway, & Sleep
Learn how to recognize the signs of chronic mouth breathing and understand how breathing patterns can influence sleep quality, behavior, attention, and overall development.
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Clarity Check
MODULE 4
Tongue Ties in School-Age Children
Gain a clear understanding of how tongue ties can affect speech, eating, oral habits, breathing, and sleep. You'll learn how tongue ties are evaluated, what questions to ask, and how to navigate the decision-making process with confidence.
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Clarity Check
MODULE 5
Closing + Next Steps
Turn information into action.
This module helps you connect everything you've learned, prioritize your concerns, and create a clear path forward for your child.
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Clarity Check
I Made Sure You'd Walk Away With More
Than Just Information
Every module comes with professional downloadable resources you can actually use, not just read and forget. These are clinical tools designed to go with you to provider appointments, help you observe your child at home, and give you the language you need to advocate confidently.
Because you deserve more than just a course to watch alone, the first 50 families to enroll will receive something really special.
Founding Member Bonus--Live group Q&A session with Amanda where you can submit your questions in advance and get thoughtful clinical perspective on the topics that matter most to you. This is your chance to ask a pediatric SLP who works with these concerns every single day the questions you've been carrying around for way too long.
✅ The Root Cause Course: 5 modules approximately, 2 hours of expert clinical content (valued at $247)
✅ 7 professional downloadable clinical resources (valued at $85)
🎁 Live Q&A with Amanda -- Founding Member Bonus (valued at $120)
💰 Total value = $452
🌿 Your investment today = $37
This BONUS closes when seat 50 is filled and won't be offered again at this price.
Founding member pricing of $37 is available until July 31st. The price increases to $67 on August 1st.
Meet Amanda
Hi, I'm Amanda Mavrakos, M.S., CCC-SLP
I'm a pediatric speech-language pathologist and the owner of Salt & Light Speech-Language Resources in Vestavia Hills, Alabama. I specialize in speech sound disorders, swallowing disorders, orofacial myofunctional therapy, tethered oral tissues, and airway-related concerns for clients of all ages. Over the years I've worked with hundreds of children experiencing speech, oral habit, tongue tie, and airway-related concerns.
After years of working with these children and their families, I noticed the same pattern over and over. Parents knew something wasn't right, but no one was helping them connect the dots between speech, oral habits, breathing, sleep, and oral development. I created this course to give families the information I wish every parent had access to long before they ever stepped into my office. I believe every child's body was fearfully and wonderfully made, sometimes it just needs a little support to work the way it was built to.
This course exists to give you the information, the tools, and the confidence to advocate for your child.
I'm genuinely honored to be part of your journey.
FAQ's
Is this course right for my child's age? Most relevant for children ages 4 and up.
Is this a diagnosis or treatment plan? It isn't. This is parent education. It gives you a framework and tools to advocate at provider appointments, it doesn't replace a professional evaluation.
How long will it take to complete? About two hours of video content across five modules. Most parents complete it across a few days fitting lessons in during nap time or after the kids are in bed. You can go at your own pace.
Do I need any clinical background? None at all. Every concept is explained in plain language with examples you'll recognize from your own child's daily life.
What if I have questions after finishing? Your downloads include the Talking to Your Provider guide. If you're one of the first 50 families the live Q&A is where you ask Amanda directly. For clinical support Salt & Light offers evaluations in person and via teletherapy in Alabama.
You've Read This Far for a Reason
You care deeply about your child, and you've been searching for answers.
The Root Cause Course was created to help you understand the connection between speech, oral habits, breathing, sleep, and oral development so you can make informed decisions and confidently advocate for your child.
For less than the cost of a typical co-pay, you'll gain practical tools, expert guidance, and a clear roadmap for your next steps.
Enrollment is open now at the founding member price of $37.
That price increases to $67 on August 1st.
🎁 Founding Member Bonus: Live Group Q&A with Amanda is only available to the first 50 families who enroll.
You don't have to keep piecing this together on your own.
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