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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

This unit focuses on interventions to limit the impact of mechanical constraints such as a history of cleft palate, on speech development and to resolve child speech difficulties thought to have a ...

Twenty years ago, children with cleft lip and/or palate were treated in 57 centres. The Clinical Standards Advisory Group (CSAG) survey of five year olds conducted in the mid-1990s showed that ...

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 ...

These areas relate directly to speech outcomes of primary surgical management and secondary surgical and nonsurgical management of individuals with cleft palate. His expertise includes aerodynamic ...

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 ...

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

Cleft lip and cleft palate (CL/CP) are the most commonly occurring craniofacial birth defects. Although some CL/CPs are detected on prenatal ultrasound, the majority are immediately recognized in ...

Children with cleft palate often struggle with speech and are more vulnerable to oral health issues. While surgery addresses structural concerns, comprehensive cleft care, such as speech therapy ...