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 ...

Cleft lip and palate (CLP) are among the most common congenital conditions affecting speech development in children. These conditions can lead to various speech challenges, even after surgical ...

Cleft palate is a congenital condition that can significantly affect speech production, often leading to a speech disorder known as hypernasality. Hypernasality occurs when there is excessive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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“This award will enable an important scientific foundation for improved surgical selection and early speech screening for infants with cleft palate,” says Kotlarek, who notes that up to 40 percent of ...