Course Description & Objectives:
Objectives:
- By the end of the course, students should have the knowledge, attitudes and skills required to enable them to undertake speech and language therapy management and intervention of children and adults with cleft lip and / or palate and tongue tie
Content:
- Embryology associated with the formation of a cleft lip and / or palate and tongue tie
- Features, aetiology and classification of clefts.
- Implications of a cleft lip and / or palate or tongue tie on early feeding and the development of communication skills
- Assessment of the feeding and communication skills
- Approaches to therapy
- Liaison with other professionals / teamwork
