Strategies in cleft palate speech--with special reference to Danish.

Abstract

In the first part of this paper speech problems as a consequence of cleft palate are described in the light of three strategies: one passive and two active. In the passive strategy, the speaker does not attempt to reduce the inevitable consequences of insufficient velopharyngeal closure. In the active strategies, the speaker attempts to reduce these consequences by compensation or by camouflage. In the second part of the article the strategies are applied to classify the persisting speech problems in five Danish children with cleft palate (4 to 5 years of age) based on a phonetic transcription of their consonant production.