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

Dynamic assessment (DA) is a new approach to evaluating speech and language disorders, focusing on the learning process over static abilities. It involves a test-teach-retest format and uses the ...

Repairing a cleft lip and palate will provide your infant with improved ability to nurse or drink from a bottle while also helping to facilitate optimal speech. Surgical repair of a cleft lip and ...

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

Dynamic assessment (DA) is a new approach to evaluating speech and language disorders, focusing on the learning process ... This method is especially relevant for children with cleft lip and palate ...

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 ...

A medical charity, Alliance for Smiles, has started free corrective surgeries for children with cleft lip and palate ...

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to perform a three-dimensional (3D) assessment of the cranial base of patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP). Cone-beam computed tomography ...

AAR Hospital has introduced ear, nose, and throat (ENT) tests for newborn babies to help in the early identification of ...

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 ...