Structural Flashcards
(143 cards)
Most common palate repair surgeries
V-Y veau Walder Kilner
Von Langenbeck
Furlow… Double opposing z plasty
Vomer flap
What age do we repair cleft palate with surgery?
9-12 mos
The V-Y helps VP closure by
Elongating palate
Elevation of soft palate
Secondary surgery, only for severe VPI
Pharyngeal flap
Pharyngeal flap requires
Lateral wall movement
Pharyngeal flap risks
Stunted facial growth
Sleep apnea
Hyponasality
Prosthesis devices
Speech bulb/obdurator
Palatal obdurator
Palatal lift
What % cleft palate have conductive hearing loss?
96%
Therapy for cleft patient is appropriate if… (5)
Compensatory artic problems Inconsistent or mild nasal rustle (small gap) Phoneme specific nasality Nasality is due to dysarthria or apraxia Improves with trial therapy
Muscle for velum raising and vp closure
Levator veli palatini
Muscle for auditory canal tube opening
Tensor veli palatini
What does the uvulus muscle do?
Shortens velum
Lifts and pulls velum back
Helps with VP closure
What does the palatoglossus do?
Aids in velar lowering
And/or
Tongue elevation
What does the palatopharyngeus do?
Constricts and elevates pharynx. Helps with swallowing
Babbling and clefts…
Less babbling
Delayed reduplicated babbling
Cleft and consonant inventories
Avoid pressure consonants
Avoid anterior sounds
Fewer overall
Compensatory artic patterns
Glottal stops and glottal fricatives
Common phonological processes with cleft
Backing
Nasal assimilation
Improve with artic faster if cleft is repaired prior to age
10
Hypernasality most noticeable on …
Vowels
Decreased utterance length due to…
Air leaks, poor pressure… Causes more respiratory effort, resulting in more frequent breaths
Face is developing in what week?
4-10th
Combo of genetic and environmental factors called…
Multifactorial inheritance
Incidence cleft lip with or without palate
1 in 1000 live births