What is the time and method of speech therapy?

  Speech therapy is usually started about one month after cleft palate surgery. The younger the child is, the better, as long as he or she can cooperate. This is because there is a time limit to the development of human speech. Missing the optimal period of speech development and long-term mispronunciation habits can make the correction of speech very difficult, and the patient must be more persistent and persistent and put in more effort, while the results obtained may still be unsatisfactory. Although children as young as two years old can be disruptive and make speech therapy difficult, it is important for the child’s speech and language development to form correct pronunciation habits early on. The duration of speech therapy is usually six months to a year. During this time, therapy sessions are held every 1-2 weeks for about half an hour. At the beginning of the session, the speech therapist will take a detailed medical history and record each child. The recordings are analyzed and a targeted treatment plan is developed for each child. At each subsequent session, the speech therapist will teach both the parents and the child the correct way to pronounce words, so that they can practice on their own every day at home until the end of the treatment. Patients who need speech training should visit the Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery Clinic and make an appointment.