Vocabulary
Articulation disorder that affects high pressure consonants
What is nasal emission?
Anatomical name for the soft palate and is the Posterior 1/3 comprised of connective tissue, mucosa, and muscular fibers
What is velum?
1:750 live births in the US
What is frequency of occurrence of cleft lip/palate?
Feeding and weight gain
What is a primary concern of a child with cleft palate at birth?
Most common compensatory misarticulation usually for oral stops produced by children with cleft palate.
Can you name any other frequently misarticulated sounds with cleft?
What is glottal stop?
Sibilant fricatives and Voiceless sounds
Resonant alteration that affects the vowels
What is hyper nasality?
Sources of nasal emission
What are velopharyngeal port, fistula, and phoneme specific nasal emission?
SLP, Orthodontist, and Surgeon
What is the 3 essential members of a cleft palate craniofacial team?
The rule of ten
What is 10 weeks, 10 pounds, hemoglobin on 10.
Compensatory misartic that perceptually, sounds equally like a /t/ and /k/
Mid-dorsal and palatal stop
Reduction in nasal resonance that is heard when the airway is partially or fully blocked and affects nasal sounds
What is hypo nasality?
Primary muscle of velopharyngeal closure
What is Levator Veli Palatini?
Front to back
What is how the palate zips?
Medical term for lip surgery and approximately when a child can have this surgery
Compensatory misartic substitution for /k/ and /g/
What is pharyngeal stop?
Variation of hypo nasality that causes speech to sound muffled
What is Cul-de-sac resonance?
Muscle that aerates the middle ear cavity and contributes to velopharyngeal closure
8 weeks gestation
When the palate closes.
What is 7-18 months (around 1 year of age)?
Therapy techniques recommended for treating glottal stop
keep vocal folds apart and starting with final position, then medial, then initial position
Inability of the velum and related anatomy to close the nasopharynx
What is velopharyngeal insufficiency?
Palatopharyngeus muscle
What is the muscle that comprises the posterior faucial pillars?
What are the phonological patterns that children with cleft palate tend to use more often than other phonological patterns?
Backing
Nasal replacement
Omissions
Substitutions
Number of surgeries overtime a child with a cleft lip and/or palate may qualify for?
What are these surgeries?
At least 5 involving lip surgery, palate surgery (primary palatoplasty, primary veloplasty and/or secondary palatoplasty), pharyngeal flap, bone graft, and jaw surgery (Lefort 1, 2, or 3 Osteotomy)
Therapy suggestions for eliminating pharyngeal stops
What is eliminated by keeping tongue forward and vocal tract open while exaggerating articulation?