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 ...

Chelsea Sommer wants every child born with cleft palate to receive the care they deserve. The bilingual speech-language pathologist knows it can be challenging to obtain treatment for this complex ...

Toddlerhood is a critical window for developmental interventions. But up to 75 percent of children born with cleft or lip palate don't receive the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A photo of baby Sutton has garnered more than 728,000 likes so far. When photographer Shannon Morton shared a baby photo to her business's Facebook page, she had no idea that it would go viral. "It ...