Roughly 70% of children with cleft palate require speech therapy, but some regions in the world have a shortage of speech ...

By using her platform to shine a light on the challenges and triumphs of cleft lip diagnoses, she’s creating space for ...

July is Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month, which aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of cleft lip and palate defects. About 6,000 to 8,000 babies are born in the United States with ...

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 ...

A mum-of-two left her career in banking to take on midwifery after her little boy was born with a cleft palate. Nicole Stirrat's youngest son, Alex, was born with a cleft palate and Pierre Robin ...

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 ...

Infants with CP may have a tongue that falls into the cleft and obstructs the airway. Some infants with CP require the use of an oropharyngeal airway to alleviate this problem. [3] If the infant ...

Most mutations which cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a massive study of human protein variants published today in the ...

Ronnie Liang encouraged fans to keep streaming his music, as his music royalties go to his outreach program, "Project Ngiti." ...

Operation Smile details its crucial work to provide support and intervention for children who are born with cleft conditions ...