Telemedicine can have long-term health equity benefits, including allowing providers to reach more patients in remote regions without travel requirements and see an increased number of patients in ...

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 ...

Researchers tested a supplementary speech tool for use in underserved areas in cleft palate speech therapy and found the tool had a high replay value, a high level of child engagement and a better ...

In a group of internationally adopted children with cleft lip and/or palate, speech at age five is impaired compared to a corresponding group of children born in Sweden, a study shows. The adopted ...

"Cleft-palate speech" resulted if the palate was short and lateral pharyngeal activity was absent. The findings of this study suggest that the palatopharyngei and the salpingopharyngei may play a more ...

In a group of internationally adopted children with cleft lip and/or palate, speech at age five is impaired compared to a corresponding group of children born in Sweden, a study shows. The adopted ...

Nearly 40 speech pathologists are now able to provide specialized care across SWVA. “You think of a cleft lip and you just sew it closed, and that’s not quite it,” says Christopher Pierce, Chair of ...

Cleft Lip Palate treatment requires a timely and multidisciplinary approach to ensure safe and quality outcomes. It must ...

It's estimated that every three minutes, somewhere in the world a baby is born with a cleft lip or palate, making it one of the most common birth defects. Eighteen-year-old Emma Johnston was born with ...

For infants undergoing cleft palate surgery, local anesthetic injection targeting the maxillary nerve of the face may reduce ...