Related Links
Recommended Web Resources
The Craniofacial Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center recommends the following web resources:
Cleft Advocate -- an organization that helps to educate, inspire and empower families whose lives are touched by cleft lip and palate or other craniofacial anomalies
Cleft Palate Foundation -- a nonprofit organization dedicated to optimizing the quality of life for individuals affected by facial birth defects
Let's Face It -- a nonprofit network that links people with facial disfigurement and all who care for them to resources that can enrich their lives
The Smile Train -- an international children's charity dedicated to helping the millions of children in the world who suffer from cleft lip and palate
Wide Smiles
Recommended Print Resources
The Speech Pathology Department at Cincinnati Children's recommends the following book for further information about clefts, velopharyngeal dysfunction and team care:
- Kummer AW. (2008). Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies: Effects on Speech and Resonance, 2nd Edition. Clifton Park, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning.
