Association between velopharyngeal function and dental-consonant misarticulations in children with cleft lip/palate

Speech and language characteristics in individuals with nonsyndromic submucous cleft palate—A systematic review

“…Cleft‐related articulation errors were reported in consistently more than 40% of study participants (Baek et al, ; Calnan, ; Park et al, ). One study also reported alveolar articulatory errors that were independent of overall velopharyngeal functioning, validating the results of a previous study (Isotalo et al, ; Pulkkinen, Haapanen, Laitinen, Paaso, & Ranta, ). This observation may be of interest to the clinician, who can consider treating alveolar errors independent of VPI.…”

Associations between Lateral Cephalometric Dimensions and Misarticulations of Finnish Dental Consonants in Cleft Lip/Palate Children

“…This agrees with our earlier findings and indicates that dentoalveolar misarticulations are distinct errors, independent of velopharyngeal insufficiency [13].…”

“…The categorization of /r/, /s/ and /l/ misarticulation was based on consensus between the 2 judges in relation to the factors that might bias the categorization of misarticulation, such as velopharyngeal insufficiency, cognitive deficiency, maturational aspects and neuromotor disorders. A detailed description of the speech analysis was published earlier [5,8,9,13].…”

Palate morphology after unilateral and bilateral cleft lip and palate closure

“…Speech analysis has shown that misarticulations of dental-consonants tended to occur independently of primary palatal surgical technique and timing of palatoplasty and even velopharyngeal function 18 . Additionally, a certain degree of misperception of place of articulation appears to be contributory to the aetiology of speech deficits in cleft patients 23 .…”