Earlier Infant Cleft Palate Repairs Pay Off The %age of cleft palate kids who had nearly normal speech in kindergarten was ~40% higher when their palates were repaired at 6 months rather than 12 months of age. #cleftpalate #velopharyngealinsufficiency #babbling #infancy #nejm https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw8S-PwR4es/

Call me an #SSD #CSSD nerd, call me predictable, but here's a group about @speechsounddisorder

1. Follow it to get all the group posts.
2. Tag it in YOUR toots/posts to share with the group.

@slp_slt @slpfedi @speechsounddisorder
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#Apraxia #Multilingual #dysarthria #CleftPalate #PML #SLP_SLT @wespeechies

Speech Intervention for Children With Cleft Palate Using Principles of Motor Learning (#PML)

This Phase I study shows that articulatory kinematic speech intervention that applies the PML is effective in improving the speech outcomes for children with #CleftPalate and that there is validity in pursuing further research into this approach.
https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-22-00007

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