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 ...

July is Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month, which aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of cleft lip and palate defects. About 6,000 to 8,000 babies are born in the United States with ...

UWS student Nicole Stirrat left her 18-year career in banking and finance to pursue midwifery, driven by a desire to make a ...

Betty Marwick (right) - played by Lisa Ellis - struggles with the news Call The Midwife has been praised by viewers affected by cleft lip and cleft palate after the BBC drama showed a baby boy ...

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 ...

The birth of a child with a cleft lip or palate, or both, can be very upsetting, especially as not all families can afford the high treatment costs. Now, Swiss researchers have developed a low ...

Main research interests: Factors that influence treatment outcome for children with cleft palate. In recent years, Dr. Hardin-Jones' research has examined the impact of cleft palate on early vocal ...

She had heard about a cleft lip and palate camp offering surgery free of charge by a Canadian medical team called Operation Rainbow Canada. But the help she needed wasn’t for her child.