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This 8 page paper explores cleft palate, its symptoms and treatment options, and the role of the speech-language therapist in that treatment. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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This paper discusses cleft palate, its symptoms and treatment options. Cleft Palate Cleft palate is a birth defect; one of a family of such defects that include clefts of the
"lip, alveolus, and/ or palate" and which together are called orofacial clefts (OFC) (Krapels, et al, 2006, p. 280). The prevalence of such defects varies "between 0.5 and 3 per
1000 live and stillbirths" and the number of such defects varies considerably "between populations, gender and geographic regions" (Krapels, et al, 2006, p. 280). Most cases are isolated, although approximately
20% of them are part of a syndrome (Krapels, et al, 2006). Photos of infants with this disorder are deeply disturbing and reveal considerable facial distortion; therefore, the affected person
and his/her family "may encounter several medical and psychosocial problems" requiring "multidisciplinary treatment up until adulthood" (Krapels, et al, 2006 p. 280). Krapels adds, "... there is a strong imperative
for a better understanding of the etiology of OFC through which exposures to modifiable risk factors can be eliminated or reduced, resulting in the prevention of thee malformations in the
next generation" (Krapels, et al, 2006, p. 280). The words "modifiable risk factors" are interesting, suggesting that there are actions humans can take to mitigate conditions that cause clefting. Specifically,
they are considering the impact of nutrition on the condition. They believe that factors causing this condition are both genetic and environmental, and that "OFC should be considered as a
complex trait, in which genetic and environmental determinants interact and express the aberrant phenotype of the primary (lip, alveolus) or secondary (hard and soft palate including the uvula) palate" (Krapels,
et al, 2006, p. 280). The nutrition that the embryo receives depends upon the "nutritional status" of the mother, which in turn is determined by her nutritional intake "and the
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