Advances in the Description of the Speech of People with Lip-palatal Fissure

Abstract

This article compiles information of currentresearch in the speech description of people withcleft lip and palate, in order to present the advancesin the field of clinical phonetics in theformation of the Speech Language Pathologists.This article also explores the case study of a 12years old subject with cleft palate, hypernasalspeech, nasal air escapes and glottal stops, whichwere detected perceptual and spectrographically.

Keywords

• Cleft palate
• clinical phonetics
• speech language pathologists.