Around one in 700 babies worldwide are born with a cleft lip or palate. However, many parents and carers have little idea of how clefts affect children’s ability to make speech sounds and learn ...

Although clefts are generally repaired within the first years of life in the UK, and some affected children develop typical speech patterns, there is evidence that more than 50% of children born with ...

A cleft palate is a V- or U-shaped gap in the tissue between the mouth and the inside of the nose. It includes variable ...

This unit examines issues in speech development and speech processing in individuals with a cleft lip and/or palate. It explores the ways in which the development of speech in the presence of a cleft ...

Most cleft lips are repaired at about four months, the soft palate at twelve months, and then nothing else happens in terms of orthodontics until about seven or eight years of age. They have to go ...

and treatment of children’s articulatory and phonological disorders and childhood apraxia of speech. Cleft lip and palate and its effects on speech sounds are included. Prerequisite: SPA 212. 383 ...

In recent years, Dr. Hardin-Jones' research has examined the impact of cleft palate on early vocal development in toddlers. She is also interested in surgical management issues that influence speech ...

HAYDEN, Idaho — Idaho Governor Brad Little is scheduled to be in Coeur d'Alene on Tuesday to proclaim February 4 as Laryngeal ...

Why are you collecting Speech and Language data? Children who are born with cleft palate are more likely than other children to have problems with their speech. In fact about half of all children born ...