Background Compensatory cleft speech disorders can severely impact speech
understandability and speech acceptability. Speech intervention is necessary to eliminate …

Purpose: Speech-language pathologists usually apply a “one size fits all” approach to
eliminate compensatory cleft speech characteristics (CSCs). It is necessary to investigate …

Study selection and assessment: Randomized and nonrandomized controlled trials were
published between inception of sources and May 2011 without language restrictions …

Objective (1) To examine the evidence for the effectiveness of differences in timing and type
of speech and language therapy for children with cleft palate with or without a cleft lip and …

Abstract Background & Aims Even though evidence for the use of linguistic–phonological
intervention approaches in children with a cleft (lip and) palate (CP±L) is still limited, these …

Background Children with cleft palate with or without cleft lip (CP±L) are at high risk of
problems with early speech sound production, and these difficulties can persist into later …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of two different speech therapy
approaches, a traditional motor-phonetic approach and a linguistic-phonological approach …

Purpose: This study investigated the practice patterns of private community speech–
language pathologists (SLPs) when treating children with a repaired cleft of the palate with …

Background Evidence‐based speech therapy involves the integration of (1) the scientific
evidence for therapy with (2) the perspectives of clinicians concerning therapy and (3) the …

Objective: To test the feasibility of trained parents undertaking cleftrelated articulation
therapy, supervised by a Specialist Speech & Language Therapist using Connected Health …