Cleft lip and palate impact speech production through a range of structural and functional challenges. In affected individuals, anatomical variations often lead to atypical articulation, hypernasality ...

Children born with a cleft lip and palate could face lifelong complications under plans to scrap specialist training, doctors ...

Katelyn Kotlarek, an assistant professor with the University of Wyoming’s Division of Communication Disorders, has received an R21 research grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other ...

Cleft palate speech assessment and hypernasality detection are critical components in the diagnosis and management of speech disorders, particularly in individuals affected by structural anomalies ...

Dr. Christopher Dobson, a pediatric anesthesiologist, volunteers with organizations that provide cleft lip and palate surgery to underprivileged children. Cleft lip and palate surgery is a ...

Babies born with a cleft lip or cleft palate, or both, will face some additional challenges in the early years of their lives, and so will their parents. Babies with clefts need to have surgery, learn ...

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. — A Sevierville elementary school teacher is hoping to find help for a student with a cleft palate. Cierra Folino, from Sevierville Primary School, said she began to notice in the ...

Children in Masbate were recently given the chance to smile with confidence and hope through a surgical and medical program ...

Velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) is a speech condition that occurs when the soft palate and throat are unable to create a seal while speaking. This causes nasal speech that can make the speaker ...

At least 41 patients, mostly children with cleft lip and palate from Masbate province, can now smile with renewed confidence ...

A new study, led by University College London (UCL) and published in Nature Communications, has revealed for the first time how genetic and environmental factors come together to form cleft lip or ...