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vi PREFACE
Dailey and Wilson (2015) stress the importance of good communication across
treatment settings.
Just as important: If you are the one who finds a child NOT being treated by
an interdisciplinary team, do not let a “gatekeeper” in the office of a third-party
payer tell you that referral to such a team is not necessary. Teams usually have
someone on staff who knows how to deal with third-party payer obstinacy.
Following are three scenarios: In the first, a child with nasal emission, hyper-
nasal resonance, and perhaps even compensatory misarticulations turns up in your
caseload and has had no previous diagnostic work-up, although he may have had
previous speech therapy (either appropriate or inappropriate). In the second, a
child in your caseload has a repaired cleft palate or other source of inadequate
velopharyngeal closure but is clearly in need of more physical management. In
the third scenario, you have a child or adult who is already under team care but
you need to interact with the team in order to develop a good therapy plan for
his current speech problems. All of these scenarios demand that you make and
maintain contact with the professionals on the interdisciplinary team.
Reference
Dailey S, Wilson K: Communicating with a cleft palate team: improving coordination of care across
treatment settings. Perspectives on Speech Science and Orofacial Disorders 25: 35-38, 2015.
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left lip and palate assume many forms. These structural defects occur very
early in the development of the baby-to-be. A cleft of the lip or palate
can occur separately, although these defects are more likely to occur
together. Clefts can occur as isolated defects, but more often they occur with at
least one minor or one major associated malformation. Approximately 70% of
children with cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL ± P) and 50% of children
with cleft palate only (CPO) have no other abnormal findings (Calzolari et al.,
2007; Jones, 1988). This means that individuals with CPO are much more likely
to have associated anomalies. Male infants are more vulnerable to CL ± P than
to CPO, and female infants are more vulnerable to CPO than to CL ± P.
Please see pages 24 to 27 in Peterson-Falzone et al. (2010) for references on these points
and information regarding frequency of occurrence by type of cleft and gender, the
frequency of occurrence by racial groups, and recurrence risks.
TYPES OF CLEFTS
CL ± P may be either unilateral or bilateral and incomplete or complete. The
latter designation speaks only to whether any tissue is present across the line of
the cleft, although the amount of tissue may be minimal. It helps to keep in mind
that, in addition to unilateral versus bilateral, clefts vary in three other dimen-
sions: anterior to posterior, width, and vertical depth or top-to-bottom (nasal
mucosa, bone of the hard palate or muscle of the soft palate, oral mucosa). Even
the dichotomy of unilateral versus bilateral is not always helpful in describing
severity because some unilateral clefts are wider than some bilateral clefts. Thus
a clinician who has not seen the child from early infancy will not be aware of the
severity of the original defect and the influence of that severity on both the
success of surgical repair and the development of speech.
Median clefts, oblique facial clefts, and lateral facial clefts are all very rare forms of clefts and
are not discussed here. See pages 19 to 20 of Peterson-Falzone et al. (2010) for
illustrations.
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Some clinicians term a cleft of the lip or a cleft of the lip and alveolus a cleft of the primary
palate. Similarly, a cleft of the palate only may be termed a cleft of the secondary palate.
Unfortunately, too many clinicians mistakenly think that “primary palate” means hard palate
and “secondary palate” means soft palate.
In the embryo, the development of the primary palate begins in the region of
the incisive foramen and moves forward. Thus the last part to form is the lip itself.
The development of the secondary palate is just the reverse: It starts with the
region of the incisive foramen and moves posteriorly. The last part to form is the
uvula. A cleft of the lip and palate is thus the result of two problems in embryonic
development, one in the primary palate and one in the secondary palate, either
of which may be incomplete or complete.
CLEFT LIP
Clefts of the lip vary from a small defect (Fig. 1-1, A) to a complete cleft extend-
ing through the floor of the nostril (Fig. 1-1, B). Microforms of cleft lip may
include a minimal notch in the vermilion border (the vermilion border is the red
portion of the lip), a fibrous band or depressed groove running up to the nostril,
or a minor deformity of the nose on the same side.
A B
FIGURE 1-1 A unilateral cleft of the lip may vary from a barely detectable microform (A) to a
complete cleft through the lip and the base of the nose (B). The tape seen on the lateral segments
in B is there in preparation for a small acrylic device or additional tape that will serve to bring the
protrusive premaxilla (baby’s left) into better position for surgical repair of the lip. (From Peterson-
Falzone SJ, Hardin-Jones MA, Karnell MP: Cleft palate speech [4th ed]. St. Louis: Elsevier, 2010.)
CHAPTER 1 Cleft Lip and Palate 3
A B
FIGURE 1-2 A and B, Incomplete cleft of the lip and alveolus on the right, with intact secondary
palate. Note flattening of the nose on the cleft side. (From Peterson-Falzone SJ, Hardin-Jones MA,
Karnell MP: Cleft palate speech [4th ed]. St. Louis: Elsevier, 2010.)
FIGURE 1-3 Infant with complete bilateral cleft of the primary palate but intact secondary palate.
(From Peterson-Falzone SJ, Hardin-Jones MA, Karnell MP: Cleft palate speech [4th ed]. St. Louis: Elsevier,
2010.)
Minimal lip defects may be associated with a minor deformity of the anterior
portion of the maxillary alveolar arch. The term forme fruste is often applied to
a minor defect of the lip with or without a minimal defect of the alveolus.
Minimal defects of the lip and alveolus have no effect on speech, but the patient
(and family) may want to seek evaluation by a geneticist/dysmorphologist because
the same genes that contribute to complete clefts also contribute to minor defects.
FIGURE 1-4 Asymmetrical bilateral cleft lip, complete on the baby’s left side but incomplete on the
right. (From Peterson-Falzone SJ, Hardin-Jones MA, Karnell MP: Cleft palate speech [4th ed]. St. Louis:
Elsevier, 2010.)
FIGURE 1-5 Bilateral cleft lip and alveolus with the central portion of the upper lip and alveolus
attached to the tip of the nose with little or no columella. (From Peterson-Falzone SJ, Hardin-Jones
MA, Karnell MP: Cleft palate speech [4th ed]. St. Louis: Elsevier, 2010.)
A B
FIGURE 1-6 A and B, Two views of the protrusive premaxilla in an infant with complete bilateral
cleft lip. (From Peterson-Falzone SJ, Hardin-Jones MA, Karnell MP: Cleft palate speech [4th ed]. St. Louis:
Elsevier, 2010.)
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4. Unilateral clefts of the lip or lip and palate are almost twice as likely to occur
on the left side than on the right.
5. Even complete clefts of the lip should have no effect on speech, once the clefts
are repaired. The exception to this may be a poor repair resulting in a lip that
is deficient in length (see Chapter 3 on physical management). However, the
dental problems that often occur in association with cleft lip and alveolus
(missing and malpositioned teeth) may contribute to articulation problems.
CLEFT PALATE
Clefts of the secondary palate also range from minimal defects to complete open
(overt) clefts extending all the way from the uvula (or what would have been the
uvula) forward to the region of the incisive foramen. They vary greatly in width
(Fig. 1-7).
A defect of the secondary palate may be as small as a slight scallop or streak
in the uvula (Fig. 1-8). The findings on the clinician’s intraoral examination may
vary from these slight differences in the appearance of the uvula to a cleft through
the uvula and partly into the velum to a complete cleft of the velum. Overt clefts
of the velum that do not reach all the way forward to the incisive foramen still
usually have a submucous extension (division of the musculature) anterior to the
open portion.
Some further notes about clefts of the secondary palate:
1. Small defects in the velum are often missed in the immediate postnatal period
unless the baby exhibits feeding problems.
2. Very large clefts of the secondary palate can leave the surgeon very little tissue
to work with (see Fig. 1-7, J).
3. In very large clefts of the palate, the base of the vomer bone can usually be
seen in the midline, and it is very straight because it is not attached to either
A B
FIGURE 1-7 Wide range in severity of clefts of the secondary palate. A to J, The range also includes,
on the lesser end, the clefts shown in Figure 1-8 and even smaller, less easily detectable (and occult)
clefts of the secondary palate. In B, D, F, and H, note that deformity of the nose is not usually seen
in patients with clefts of the secondary palate only. (From Peterson-Falzone SJ, Hardin-Jones MA, Karnell
MP: Cleft palate speech [4th ed]. St. Louis: Elsevier, 2010.) Continued
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E F
G H
I J
A B
FIGURE 1-8 A and B, Submucous defects of the secondary palate with a bifid uvula that may escape
detection on a quick or careless intraoral examination. These photographs illustrate what may be
considered microforms of clefts of the secondary palate, but it is important to remember that the
patients may be either asymptomatic in speech or exhibit significant velopharyngeal inadequacy. The
intraoral view alone tells us little of clinical significance, but the presence of the bifid uvula is important
for genetic documentation of each case regardless of whether that person is symptomatic in speech.
(From Peterson-Falzone SJ, Hardin-Jones MA, Karnell MP: Cleft palate speech [4th ed]. St. Louis: Elsevier,
2010.)
palatal shelf. (Thus there is no “tug” to one side.) Technically, this may be
termed a “bilateral cleft of the secondary palate,” but such terminology is con-
fusing to clinicians who look in the mouth and see only one cleft, not two.
4. The patient with cleft lip and palate can have a significant discrepancy between
the size of the lip defect and the size of the palatal defect (Fig. 1-9).
In a submucous cleft of the velum, the muscle fibers that should have reached across the
midline to interlock with those from the other side of the developing palate instead run
forward. This is not really a division in the musculature but muscle running in the wrong
direction.
Submucous clefts with central perforations through the thin mucosa have also been
described in the literature, often with the label of “congenital palatal fistulas.” See the note
on page 18 of Peterson-Falzone et al. (2010).
The three classic visible stigmata of a submucous cleft are bifid uvula, muscular
dehiscence of the velum (sometimes termed a “zona pellucida”), and a bony defect
of the hard palate (Fig. 1-10). However, here are some warnings about this
“classic” description:
1. The three stigmata do not always appear together; one may be present without
the other two, or two may occur without the third. A patient may have only
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A B
FIGURE 1-9 Facial (A) and intraoral (B) views of an infant with an incomplete unilateral cleft, in
that the lip is only partially cleft (A), but there is nevertheless a wide cleft of the palate (B). (From
Peterson-Falzone SJ, Hardin-Jones MA, Karnell MP: Cleft palate speech [4th ed]. St. Louis: Elsevier, 2010.)
A B
FIGURE 1-10 A and B, Bifid uvula, zona pellucida (transparent area) of the soft palate (difficult to
see in a black and white photograph), and submucous notch in the posterior border of the hard palate.
(From Peterson-Falzone SJ, Hardin-Jones MA, Karnell MP: Cleft palate speech [4th ed]. St. Louis: Elsevier,
2010.)
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a small defect in the uvula or a bifid uvula and muscular diastasis of the soft
palate with an intact hard palate.
2. Even when none of the three classic stigmata is visible from the intraoral view,
the patient may have a midline trough-like defect on the upper surface of the
soft palate that can be seen only on nasendoscopy. This is often labeled an
“occult submucous cleft.”
3. Although nasendoscopy has been a routine clinical examination since at least
the 1980s, only a relatively small percentage of cases of submucous cleft palate
reported in the extensive literature on this subject have undergone a nasendo-
scopic examination. Thus it cannot be known how often one clinical sign of
a submucous cleft appears in conjunction with others.
4. In the older literature, patients were sometimes assumed to have submucous
clefts simply because they had hypernasal speech. In addition, in some reports
patients with other anatomical or neurological findings affecting velopharyn-
geal (VP) function were grouped with patients with submucous clefts. This
practice negated the validity (and value) of many reports.
5. Keep in mind that some speakers have all three classic visible stigmata of a
submucous cleft but do not have impaired velopharyngeal function. We do not
know how many such individuals there are because we do not learn about them
if they do not have problems. It is good to remember that no one-to-one cor-
relation exists between the visible signs of a submucous cleft and the presence
or absence of audible signs of VP inadequacy (VPI).
I see increasing reason to believe that the view formed some time
back as to the origin of the Makonde bush is the correct one. I have
no doubt that it is not a natural product, but the result of human
occupation. Those parts of the high country where man—as a very
slight amount of practice enables the eye to perceive at once—has not
yet penetrated with axe and hoe, are still occupied by a splendid
timber forest quite able to sustain a comparison with our mixed
forests in Germany. But wherever man has once built his hut or tilled
his field, this horrible bush springs up. Every phase of this process
may be seen in the course of a couple of hours’ walk along the main
road. From the bush to right or left, one hears the sound of the axe—
not from one spot only, but from several directions at once. A few
steps further on, we can see what is taking place. The brush has been
cut down and piled up in heaps to the height of a yard or more,
between which the trunks of the large trees stand up like the last
pillars of a magnificent ruined building. These, too, present a
melancholy spectacle: the destructive Makonde have ringed them—
cut a broad strip of bark all round to ensure their dying off—and also
piled up pyramids of brush round them. Father and son, mother and
son-in-law, are chopping away perseveringly in the background—too
busy, almost, to look round at the white stranger, who usually excites
so much interest. If you pass by the same place a week later, the piles
of brushwood have disappeared and a thick layer of ashes has taken
the place of the green forest. The large trees stretch their
smouldering trunks and branches in dumb accusation to heaven—if
they have not already fallen and been more or less reduced to ashes,
perhaps only showing as a white stripe on the dark ground.
This work of destruction is carried out by the Makonde alike on the
virgin forest and on the bush which has sprung up on sites already
cultivated and deserted. In the second case they are saved the trouble
of burning the large trees, these being entirely absent in the
secondary bush.
After burning this piece of forest ground and loosening it with the
hoe, the native sows his corn and plants his vegetables. All over the
country, he goes in for bed-culture, which requires, and, in fact,
receives, the most careful attention. Weeds are nowhere tolerated in
the south of German East Africa. The crops may fail on the plains,
where droughts are frequent, but never on the plateau with its
abundant rains and heavy dews. Its fortunate inhabitants even have
the satisfaction of seeing the proud Wayao and Wamakua working
for them as labourers, driven by hunger to serve where they were
accustomed to rule.
But the light, sandy soil is soon exhausted, and would yield no
harvest the second year if cultivated twice running. This fact has
been familiar to the native for ages; consequently he provides in
time, and, while his crop is growing, prepares the next plot with axe
and firebrand. Next year he plants this with his various crops and
lets the first piece lie fallow. For a short time it remains waste and
desolate; then nature steps in to repair the destruction wrought by
man; a thousand new growths spring out of the exhausted soil, and
even the old stumps put forth fresh shoots. Next year the new growth
is up to one’s knees, and in a few years more it is that terrible,
impenetrable bush, which maintains its position till the black
occupier of the land has made the round of all the available sites and
come back to his starting point.
The Makonde are, body and soul, so to speak, one with this bush.
According to my Yao informants, indeed, their name means nothing
else but “bush people.” Their own tradition says that they have been
settled up here for a very long time, but to my surprise they laid great
stress on an original immigration. Their old homes were in the
south-east, near Mikindani and the mouth of the Rovuma, whence
their peaceful forefathers were driven by the continual raids of the
Sakalavas from Madagascar and the warlike Shirazis[47] of the coast,
to take refuge on the almost inaccessible plateau. I have studied
African ethnology for twenty years, but the fact that changes of
population in this apparently quiet and peaceable corner of the earth
could have been occasioned by outside enterprises taking place on
the high seas, was completely new to me. It is, no doubt, however,
correct.
The charming tribal legend of the Makonde—besides informing us
of other interesting matters—explains why they have to live in the
thickest of the bush and a long way from the edge of the plateau,
instead of making their permanent homes beside the purling brooks
and springs of the low country.
“The place where the tribe originated is Mahuta, on the southern
side of the plateau towards the Rovuma, where of old time there was
nothing but thick bush. Out of this bush came a man who never
washed himself or shaved his head, and who ate and drank but little.
He went out and made a human figure from the wood of a tree
growing in the open country, which he took home to his abode in the
bush and there set it upright. In the night this image came to life and
was a woman. The man and woman went down together to the
Rovuma to wash themselves. Here the woman gave birth to a still-
born child. They left that place and passed over the high land into the
valley of the Mbemkuru, where the woman had another child, which
was also born dead. Then they returned to the high bush country of
Mahuta, where the third child was born, which lived and grew up. In
course of time, the couple had many more children, and called
themselves Wamatanda. These were the ancestral stock of the
Makonde, also called Wamakonde,[48] i.e., aborigines. Their
forefather, the man from the bush, gave his children the command to
bury their dead upright, in memory of the mother of their race who
was cut out of wood and awoke to life when standing upright. He also
warned them against settling in the valleys and near large streams,
for sickness and death dwelt there. They were to make it a rule to
have their huts at least an hour’s walk from the nearest watering-
place; then their children would thrive and escape illness.”
The explanation of the name Makonde given by my informants is
somewhat different from that contained in the above legend, which I
extract from a little book (small, but packed with information), by
Pater Adams, entitled Lindi und sein Hinterland. Otherwise, my
results agree exactly with the statements of the legend. Washing?
Hapana—there is no such thing. Why should they do so? As it is, the
supply of water scarcely suffices for cooking and drinking; other
people do not wash, so why should the Makonde distinguish himself
by such needless eccentricity? As for shaving the head, the short,
woolly crop scarcely needs it,[49] so the second ancestral precept is
likewise easy enough to follow. Beyond this, however, there is
nothing ridiculous in the ancestor’s advice. I have obtained from
various local artists a fairly large number of figures carved in wood,
ranging from fifteen to twenty-three inches in height, and
representing women belonging to the great group of the Mavia,
Makonde, and Matambwe tribes. The carving is remarkably well
done and renders the female type with great accuracy, especially the
keloid ornamentation, to be described later on. As to the object and
meaning of their works the sculptors either could or (more probably)
would tell me nothing, and I was forced to content myself with the
scanty information vouchsafed by one man, who said that the figures
were merely intended to represent the nembo—the artificial
deformations of pelele, ear-discs, and keloids. The legend recorded
by Pater Adams places these figures in a new light. They must surely
be more than mere dolls; and we may even venture to assume that
they are—though the majority of present-day Makonde are probably
unaware of the fact—representations of the tribal ancestress.
The references in the legend to the descent from Mahuta to the
Rovuma, and to a journey across the highlands into the Mbekuru
valley, undoubtedly indicate the previous history of the tribe, the
travels of the ancestral pair typifying the migrations of their
descendants. The descent to the neighbouring Rovuma valley, with
its extraordinary fertility and great abundance of game, is intelligible
at a glance—but the crossing of the Lukuledi depression, the ascent
to the Rondo Plateau and the descent to the Mbemkuru, also lie
within the bounds of probability, for all these districts have exactly
the same character as the extreme south. Now, however, comes a
point of especial interest for our bacteriological age. The primitive
Makonde did not enjoy their lives in the marshy river-valleys.
Disease raged among them, and many died. It was only after they
had returned to their original home near Mahuta, that the health
conditions of these people improved. We are very apt to think of the
African as a stupid person whose ignorance of nature is only equalled
by his fear of it, and who looks on all mishaps as caused by evil
spirits and malignant natural powers. It is much more correct to
assume in this case that the people very early learnt to distinguish
districts infested with malaria from those where it is absent.
This knowledge is crystallized in the
ancestral warning against settling in the
valleys and near the great waters, the
dwelling-places of disease and death. At the
same time, for security against the hostile
Mavia south of the Rovuma, it was enacted
that every settlement must be not less than a
certain distance from the southern edge of the
plateau. Such in fact is their mode of life at the
present day. It is not such a bad one, and
certainly they are both safer and more
comfortable than the Makua, the recent
intruders from the south, who have made USUAL METHOD OF
good their footing on the western edge of the CLOSING HUT-DOOR
plateau, extending over a fairly wide belt of
country. Neither Makua nor Makonde show in their dwellings
anything of the size and comeliness of the Yao houses in the plain,
especially at Masasi, Chingulungulu and Zuza’s. Jumbe Chauro, a
Makonde hamlet not far from Newala, on the road to Mahuta, is the
most important settlement of the tribe I have yet seen, and has fairly
spacious huts. But how slovenly is their construction compared with
the palatial residences of the elephant-hunters living in the plain.
The roofs are still more untidy than in the general run of huts during
the dry season, the walls show here and there the scanty beginnings
or the lamentable remains of the mud plastering, and the interior is a
veritable dog-kennel; dirt, dust and disorder everywhere. A few huts
only show any attempt at division into rooms, and this consists
merely of very roughly-made bamboo partitions. In one point alone
have I noticed any indication of progress—in the method of fastening
the door. Houses all over the south are secured in a simple but
ingenious manner. The door consists of a set of stout pieces of wood
or bamboo, tied with bark-string to two cross-pieces, and moving in
two grooves round one of the door-posts, so as to open inwards. If
the owner wishes to leave home, he takes two logs as thick as a man’s
upper arm and about a yard long. One of these is placed obliquely
against the middle of the door from the inside, so as to form an angle
of from 60° to 75° with the ground. He then places the second piece
horizontally across the first, pressing it downward with all his might.
It is kept in place by two strong posts planted in the ground a few
inches inside the door. This fastening is absolutely safe, but of course
cannot be applied to both doors at once, otherwise how could the
owner leave or enter his house? I have not yet succeeded in finding
out how the back door is fastened.