English Cleft Palate Speech Therapy: Evaluation and Treatment
This course focuses on speech and feeding in cleft palate cases. Participants will learn about evidence-based assessment and treatment approaches for children with various compensatory cleft palate speech errors. Topics include speech therapy, oral examination and speech sound assessment, feeding a baby with cleft lip and/or cleft palate, syndromes, and surgical cleft palate repair
Course modules
- 1Module 1.1- Cleft Palate Speech and Feeding: Importance of Speech Therapy & Intro to Anatomy
- 2Module 1.2- Cleft Palate Speech and Feeding: Anatomy and Physiology of Cleft Lip and Palate
- 3Module 1.3- Cleft Palate Speech and Feeding: Submucous Cleft, Occult Palate Anatomy and Physiology
- 4Module 1.4- Cleft Palate Speech and Feeding: Velopharyngeal Closure and Nasoendoscopy
- 5Module 2.1- Cleft Palate Speech and Feeding: How Speech Sounds Are Made
- 6Module 2.2- Cleft Palate Speech and Feeding: Resonance
- 7Module 3.1- Cleft Palate Speech and Feeding: Oral Examination and Speech Sound Assessment
- 8Module 3.2- Cleft Palate Speech and Feeding: Cleft Palate Speech Therapy Strategies
- 9Module 3.3- Cleft Palate Speech and Feeding: Addressing Nasal Emissions in Cleft Palate Speech
- 10Module 3.4- Cleft Palate Speech and Feeding: Strategies for Eliminating Glottal Stops
