Each year around 1000 children are born with cleft lip and/or palate in the United Kingdom. Many require long term multi-disciplinary care. Twenty years ago, children with cleft lip and/or palate were ...

Chelsea Sommer wants every child born with cleft palate to receive the care they deserve. The bilingual speech-language pathologist knows it can be challenging to obtain treatment for this complex ...

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 ...

What Is a Cleft Palate? A cleft palate (PAL-it) is when a baby is born with an opening (a cleft) in the roof of the mouth. This leaves a hole between the nose and the mouth. The opening can: just be ...

His mother, Jessica Poirier, brings him back regularly for continuing care from a team of cleft specialists. OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital is the most experienced and largest provider of cleft ...

No surgical repair needed, speech therapy needed. Surgical repair needed, speech therapy needed. A submucous cleft palate that doesn't affect a child's speech usually is watched carefully by the care ...

Our expert team at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital treats more children with cleft lip or cleft palate than any other hospital in Oregon. We provide the full range of care for your child’s speech ...

Learn more about our cleft and craniofacial program serving patients in Tampa and throughout the Tampa Bay area. Your child can receive expert care for cleft lip, cleft palate and other craniofacial ...

If you choose to have genetic testing, counselors explain the results so you can make informed decisions about your child’s care. There is a greater chance of having a child with clefting if a parent ...

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 ...

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 ...