Find tips for introducing spoon feeding and cup drinking to your child with cleft lip and/or cleft palate and making the experience enjoyable.
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.
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.
Understanding your child's cleft lip and/or palate through genetic assessments.
Fixing a cleft lip involves two operations. Learn about the operations and what you need to know before, during and after both surgeries.
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.
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 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.
Babies born with a cleft palate often have a conductive hearing loss.
Your child has been recommended to have an operation to help correct nasal-sounding speech (hypernasality). The operation is called a Furlow palatoplasty.
Your child has been recommended to have an operation to help correct nasal-sounding speech (hypernasality). The operation is called a pharyngeal flap pharyngoplasty.
Information about campomelic dysplasia, a genetic condition that affects the development of the skeleton and reproductive system.
22q11DS is a genetic condition with a wide range of symptoms. Learn about some of the more common medical features of 22q11DS.
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.
Information for parents about trisomy 18, a rare genetic condition that causes developmental delay and affects many different organ systems.
To mark Nutrition Month, find out about tube feeding, special diets, food allergies and sensitivities, bowel conditions and more.
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.
Learn about feeding studies, which find out what your child can drink and eat safely. The feeding study is an X-ray video of what happens from when food enters your child's mouth until after your child swallows.
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.
Information for parents about trisomy 13, a rare genetic condition that causes developmental delay and affects many different organ systems.
Tube weaning is the process of safely transitioning from a feeding tube to eating and drinking by mouth. Learn about tube weaning, assessing oral feeding readiness, managing associated risks and follow-up care.
Discover the various stages of your baby's nutrition and how to handle issues such as spitting up.
Learn about how complex medical conditions and admissions to the hospital can impact speech and language development in children.
