LIBC related project

Speech perception of cleft-palate children

Research team: Mieke Beers, Lisa Cheng, Claartje Levelt, Niels Schiller, Capi Wever

This project is part of an integrated project carried out in the Leiden University Medical Center on the treatment of children with a cleft-palate.
Children with a Cleft-palate exhibit speech and language problems.  We aim at investigating how and to what extent having a cleft-palate affects the construction of a detailed lexical representation.  In addition, we also investigate how the different treatments (timing of palate closure, having a plastic plate, frequency of speech pathology, etc. ) affect their speech production and perception.

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