Learn about cleft lip and cleft palate and its impact on a baby's feeding, hearing, teeth and speech.
If your child has a cleft lip or palate find information to help you understand the condition and what can be done to help your child.
Understanding your child's cleft lip and/or palate through genetic assessments.
Find tips for introducing spoon feeding and cup drinking to your child with cleft lip and/or cleft palate and making the experience enjoyable.
Parents and caregivers play an important role in supporting their baby’s speech and language development. Learn how to help your baby develop their speech and language before their cleft palate repair.
Parents and caregivers play an important role in supporting their child’s speech and language development. Learn how to help your child develop their speech and language after their cleft palate repair.
Your child will need an operation to repair their cleft palate. This page tells you about the operation and what you need to know before, during and after the operation.
Fixing a cleft lip involves two operations. Learn about the operations and what you need to know before, during and after both surgeries.
Babies born with a cleft palate often have a conductive hearing loss.
Your child will have a small tube, called a nasal stent, placed in their nostrils after surgery. Learn how to take care of your child at home.
An alveolar bone graft operation is done to close an alveolar cleft (gap in the bone of the upper jaw). Children who had a cleft lip and palate may have an alveolar cleft.
Your child has been recommended to have an operation to help correct nasal-sounding speech (hypernasality). The operation is called a Furlow palatoplasty.
Information about campomelic dysplasia, a genetic condition that affects the development of the skeleton and reproductive system.
Your child has been recommended to have an operation to help correct nasal-sounding speech (hypernasality). The operation is called a pharyngeal flap pharyngoplasty.
22q11DS is a genetic condition with a wide range of symptoms. Learn about some of the more common medical features of 22q11DS.
Information for parents about trisomy 18, a rare genetic condition that causes developmental delay and affects many different organ systems.
Information for parents about trisomy 13, a rare genetic condition that causes developmental delay and affects many different organ systems.
Learn about the causes, symptoms and treatment of middle ear effusion, a build-up of fluid behind the eardrum.
A speech-language pathologist supports various aspects of communication, as well as safe swallowing and feeding skills. Learn more about the role of speech-language pathologists.
Learn about how complex medical conditions and admissions to the hospital can impact speech and language development in children.
To mark Nutrition Month, find out about tube feeding, special diets, food allergies and sensitivities, bowel conditions and more.
Learn about the role that genetics plays in many heart conditions that afflict children.
Find out how a child’s speech and language skills usually develop by age 3 and what you can do to support speech and language development.
Find out how a child’s speech and language skills usually develop between the ages of 3 and 5 years, when to be concerned and what you can do to support communication development.
Read about poor weight gain, which is when a child does not grow or gain weight as expected. Learn about the causes and management of poor weight gain in infants and young children.
