This course, Cleft Palate Speech and Feeding, is a 5-day program that intends to provide speech-language pathologists and parents of children with cleft palate with essential strategies and information to maximize their ability to improve speech in children with cleft palate. This course forms part of the Smile Train initiative to provide exhaustive treatment after surgery to optimize the quality of live of patients.
El Curso del Habla y Alimentación en Personas con Paladar Hendido es un programa de cinco días que pretende proveer a fonoaudiólogos/logopedas y padres de familia con técnicas esenciales e información para aumentar su capacidad de mejorar el habla de niños con paladar hendido. El curso forma parte de la iniciativas de Smile Train para proveer tratamiento exhaustivo después de la operación para optimizar los resultados en la vida del paciente.
This video presents the “Acevedo Spoke” method of teaching children with repaired cleft palate to produce consonants in syllables.
Catherine Crowley and Miriam Baigorri of Teachers College Columbia University developed the “Building Capacity: The Cleft Palate Speech Training Project” for local professionals to begin to acquire the academic and clinical skills needed to provide quality services to children with cleft lip and palate. This video shows the first program administration which was done at the Universidad de Istmo in Guatemala City, Guatemala in March 2012.
