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Having understood the structure and functioning of the palate, it becomes easier to recognize its implicit defects and dysfunctions which manifest as a disorder of feeding, swallowing and impairment in the speech of individuals with a cleft palate. The degree and severity of disordered functioning is directly proportional to the size and type of defect in the palate. A disorder of eating, drinking, and swallowing challenges the nutritional intake, affecting the physical and mental health as well as social well-being of the child. The development of orally and nasally spoken speech sounds, require resonance within their respective cavities, to enhance the audibility of the sounds to the listener. Disorder of speech is evident through hypernasality, hyponasality, or mixed nasality, and inappropriate or displaced resonance accompanied by misarticulation of speech sounds. It may be said here that a cleft palate causes more concern than the cleft lip, as the latter poses a bigger cosmetic problem, than the one pertaining to malfunctioning of the speech mechanism.
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Siddiqui, A.A. (2022). Pathophysiology of the Cleft Palate. In: Fayyaz, G.Q. (eds) Surgical Atlas of Cleft Palate and Palatal Fistulae. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3889-6_5-1
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