Category: Articulation

How the speech organs (tongue, lips, jaw, etc.) interact with one another to produce speech sounds. The term generally includes how and when sound is generated and where articulators (speech organs) make contact. Other parameters include nasalization, trills of speech organs and stricture of the vocal tract which causes changes in resonance.

(Spanish) Cleft Palate Practice for K

Leaders Project
Este libro forma parte de una serie de libros hechos para niños con el paladar hendido reparado. This book is part of a series of Spanish language books written for children with repaired cleft palate.
Este libro forma parte de una serie de libros hechos para niños con el paladar hendido reparado. Este libro se enfoque en la “K.” Los niños que reciben terapia del habla después de la reparación de paladar hendido deberían practicar los sonidos 100 veces al día si quieren mejorar. Con estos libros los niños pueden practicar en casa con su familia o solo!   This book is part of a series of books written for children with repaired cleft palate. This book focuses on “K.” Children receiving speech therapy after a repaired cleft palate should practice speech sounds 100 times a day if they want to improve. With these books, children can practice at home with their family or on their own!

(Spanish) Cleft Palate Practice for T, D, N

Leaders Project
Este libro forma parte de una serie de libros hechos para niños con el paladar hendido reparado. This book is part of a series of Spanish language books written for children with repaired cleft palate.
Este libro forma parte de una serie de libros hechos para niños con el paladar hendido reparado. Este libro se enfoque en la “T,” la “D” y la “N.” Los niños que reciben terapia del habla después de la reparación de paladar hendido deberían practicar los sonidos 100 veces al día si quieren mejorar. Con estos libros los niños pueden practicar en casa con su familia o solo!   This book is part of a series of books written for children with repaired cleft palate. This book focuses on T, D and N. Children receiving speech therapy after a repaired cleft palate should practice speech sounds 100 times a day if they want to improve. With these books, children can practice at home with their family or on their own!
Downloadble pdf: TDN.pdf

(Spanish) Cleft Palate Practice for P and B

Leaders Project
Este libro forma parte de una serie de libros hechos para niños con el paladar hendido reparado. This book is part of a series of Spanish language books written for children with repaired cleft palate.
Este libro forma parte de una serie de libros hechos para niños con el paladar hendido reparado. Este libro enfoque en la “P” y la “B.” Los niños que reciben terapia del habla después de la reparación de paladar hendido deberían practicar los sonidos 100 veces al día si quieren mejorar. Con estos libros los niños pueden practicar en casa con su familia o solo! This book is part of a series of books written for children with repaired cleft palate. This book focuses on P and B. Children receiving speech therapy after a repaired cleft palate should practice speech sounds 100 times a day if they want to improve. With these books, children can practice at home with their family or on their own!

Downloadable pdf: El Pollo Pepe.pdf

(Spanish) Cleft Palate Practice for S

Leaders Project
Este libro forma parte de una serie de libros hechos para niños con el paladar hendido reparado. This book is part of a series of books written for children with repaired cleft palate.
Este libro forma parte de una serie de libros hechos para niños con el paladar hendido reparado. Este libro enfoque en la “S.” Los niños que reciben terapia del habla después de la reparación de paladar hendido deberían practicar los sonidos 100 veces al día si quieren mejorar. Con estos libros los niños pueden practicar en casa con su familia o solo! This book is part of a series of books written for children with repaired cleft palate. It focuses on the “S.” Children receiving speech therapy after a repaired cleft palate should practice speech sounds 100 times a day if they want to improve. With these books, children can practice at home with their family or on their own!

Downloadable pdf: Sammy Sosa.pdf

Cleft Palate Speech Therapy Books in Spanish

Kristin
Mira Sammy Sosa
Click for details: Este libro forma parte de una serie de libros hechos para niños con el paladar hendido reparado. This book is part of a series of books written for children with repaired cleft palate.

Cate Crowley took a group of students and professionals to provide therapy and professional development with the Healing the Children cleft palate surgical mission in Neiva, Colombia. The Healing the Children mission differs from traditional cleft palate missions because the team returns every year to provide ongoing surgery, treatment and therapy to the same patients each year. During this last mission, 166 hours of therapy were provided in group and individual sessions to patients working with Healing the Children. This year Cate developed an idea to create books in Spanish that would help children with repaired cleft palates to improve their speech. Cate oversaw development and supported the books that were written by Angela Giraldo and illustrated by Tina Yeung. These books, in Spanish, focus on specific high pressure sounds that are at the same place of articulation. For example some books focus on  t, d and n  while others focus on p, b and m. These books were given to all the surgeons and fonoaudiologists (speech therapists) working with patients from the Healing the Children mission. In addition, small format versions of the books were given to all the patients so that they would have fun and interesting materials that they could use to practice their sounds.

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Healing the Children Mission to Neiva, Colombia

Kristin
A surgeon from Healing the children meets with a patient and his father.
A surgeon from Healing the children meets with a patient and his father.

This year Catherine Crowley and her team accompanied Healing the Children surgical mission to Neiva, Columbia. Healing the children is not a typical cleft palate repair mission. Traditionally, a cleft palate team would travel to a developing country and do many dozens of cleft lip and palate repairs and then return to their home country. However, a child with a repaired cleft lip or palate actually requires onoing therapy, monitoring and often further surgery in order for the repair to be successful. Without this type of long-term support, many children do not learn to talk intelligibly, despite the repair and can even develop fistulas (holes) as they grow. Healing the Children instead conducts annual trips back to Neiva. This was their 21st trip and Cate’s 2nd trip back. They work with the same patients each year while providing therapy and further surgery, including later revisions, bone augmentation and orthodonture.

Cate’s team was there for the second year and offered a 5 day training course for fonoaudiologists (speech therapists). The fonoaudiologists learned the specific knowledge and skills they will need to provide quality services to children with repaired cleft palate.Classes were given in the morning and then the clinicians provided services, including language stimulation, in the afternoon to patients.

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Terapia del Habla para Paladar Hendido 3: Metodología/ Cleft Palate Speech Therapy 3: Methodology

Leaders Project

La tercera clase presenta métodos y estrategias que se pueden usar en la terapia del habla para paladar hendido. Primera demuestra cómo el paladar hendido afecta los sonidos del habla. Luego repasa la jerarquía de terapia y muestra como usar las estrategias en la terapia. Se recuerde no usar los ejercicios orales motrices en terapia del habla porque no son eficaces.

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