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 ...

Although clefts are generally repaired within the first years of life in the UK, and some affected children develop typical speech patterns, there is evidence that more than 50% of children born with ...

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 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 ...