What can a bifid uvula indicate

What can a bifid uvula indicate?

2. What are the three major categorical causes associated with clefting?  Give an example of each.

3.Describe the differences between VP Insufficiency, VP mis-learning and VP Incompetence

4. If a client asks why their eight week old baby doesn’t have his cleft lip repaired yet.They are worried about feeding. What are the possible reasons that the surgery hasn’t happened yet? 

5.The same family wants to know what they can do to help their son gain weight because he isn’t a very efficient eater.  Currently he is breast fed and he gets a lot of air and is quite gassy. What are 3 suggestions (with some explanation of each)?

6. A 6 year old girl has been referred to you for a speech language evaluation.  She attends French town school.  You have permission to evaluate and the referral mentions that she has just recovered from a pharyngeal flap surgery.  She is no longer nasal but is still using compensatory and obligatory speech patterns.  Her dibels scores are low.  The teacher is concerned because she has a hard time following directions in class and she can’t get her thoughts out very well.  The teacher also noted that she seems thin.

Using the assessment framework – What should you do for each area of assessment. 

Referral:  

Screening: 

Case history:

7.As a parent of a child with a cleft palate, what do you think would be your biggest psycho-social challenge and why? 

As a teenage with a visibly repaired cleft palate what do you think your biggest psycho-social challenge would be and why?