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CAMARGO MENDOZA, Maryluz. Advances in the Description of the Speech of People with Lip-palatal Fissure. Rev. Cienc. Salud [online]. 2006, vol.4, suppl.1, pp.82-86. ISSN 1692-7273.

This article compiles information of current research in the speech description of people with cleft lip and palate, in order to present the advances in the field of clinical phonetics in the formation of the Speech Language Pathologists. This article also explores the case study of a 12 years old subject with cleft palate, hypernasal speech, nasal air escapes and glottal stops, which were detected perceptual and spectrographically.

Palavras-chave : Cleft palate; clinical phonetics; speech language pathologists.