A Longitudinal Study of Speech Production in Swedish Children with Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate and Two-stage Palatal Repair

Abstract

The UCLP group performed worse than the comparison group at all ages. A high occurrence of dental plosives as well as a high number of consonant types in babbling and first words seem to be good indicators for better consonant production in later speech. The same prevalence of retracted oral articulation as in previous studies is attributed to the surgical technique.