A Brandon Hill Title

This text provides a unique and comprehensive approach to cleft assessment, treatment, and management, with new and revised content that will keep you at the cutting edge of cleft lip and palate treatment and therapies. Comprehensive coverage of every aspect of cleft palate and related disorders. Thorough coverage of the available literature on cleft lip and cleft palate includes both contemporary and historically significant studies, as well as low-incidence types of phenomena. The Birth of a Child with a Cleft introduction provides a detailed preview to the treatment of children with clefts, and offers useful suggestions for interacting with their parents. New artwork clearly demonstrates and enhances understanding of important clinical conditions and procedures.

Clinicains need a hands-on clinical manual that gives proven techniques for managing the speech and voice disorders that result from this congenital condition. Therapy Techniques for Cleft Palate Speech and Related disorders gets straight to the point by identifying compensatory articulation patterns and providing step-by-step guidelines for their prevention and elimination. Communication Disorders / Medical

"Inside The Clinician's Guide to Treating Cleft Palate Speech, you'll find: a practical approach to differential diagnoses and management of cleft palate speech disorders; bulleted lists, tables, boxes, and helpful illustrations for easy access to key information needed in day-to-day practice; margin notes with hints, author comments, and additional clinical information from recognized experts in the management of cleft palate speech disorders; and a companion CD-ROM with 41 video clips that demonstrate a broad range of speech disorders in children, examples of instrumental and noninstrumental assessment approaches, and effective therapy techniques."--BOOK JACKET.

The focus of this book is on speech production and speech processing associated with cleft palate, covering phonetic (perceptual and instrumental), phonological and psycholinguistic perspectives, and including coverage of implications for literacy and education, as well as cross-linguistic differences. It draws together a group of international experts in the fields of cleft lip and palate and speech science to provide an up-to-date and in-depth account of the nature of speech production, and the processes and current evidence base of assessment and intervention for speech associated with cleft palate. The consequences of speech disorders associated with cleft on intelligibility and communicative participation are also covered. This book will provide a solid theoretical foundation and a valuable clinical resource for students of speech-language pathology, for practising speech-language pathologists, and for others interested in speech production in cleft palate, including researchers and members of multi-disciplinary cleft teams who wish to know more about the nature of speech difficulties associated with a cleft palate.