Study on a high-aged cleft palate patient before and after speech treatment by Y-G psychological test.

Speech intelligibility after repair of cleft lip and palate

    Background: Intelligibility refers to understandability of speech; and lack of it can negatively affect children’s overall communication effectiveness. Children with repaired cleft lip and/or cleft palate (CL/P) may experience poor speech intelligibility. This study aimed at evaluating speech intelligibility in children with repaired CL/P who had not been referred to sp...

Evaluation of Speech Intelligibility of a Cleft Palate Patient with Speech Prosthesis before and after Palatographical Analysis and Prosthesis Modification

The aim of the study was to evaluate the alterations in speech intelligibility in a cleft palate patient, before and after extending and modifying the palatal contour of the existing prosthesis using a correctable wax recording. An eight-year-old girl studying in second grade with a velopharyngeal defect using an obturator reported to the outpatient clinic complaining of lack in clarity of spee...

Acoustic investigation of cleft palate speech before and after speech therapy

Cleft Palate and Speech

THE well-known textbooks of anatomy generally used by undergraduates are rcally works of reference and are not suitable for reading through from the beginning to the end. Moreover, the body is dissected region by region, whereas most textbooks present their information system by system. Professor Woodburne has made an admirable attempt to providc a regional textbook of anatomy which can be read...

Cleft Palate and Speech

CLINICAL MEDICINE. By Jessie Garrard and Sir Max Rosenheim. (Pp. 174. £1.40). London: Balliere, Tindall & Cassell, 1970. THIS book was written primarily for medical students starting clinical work. It will also be of considerable value to house officers and those entering general practice. It is concerned primarily with the individual patient, his relationships to his family and community and t...