1. One hundred cleft palate / cleft lip surgeries are currently being sponsored. 2. Hampered by a cleft palate , it had to be coaxed into eating. 3. Dr . Vig is also the Past President of American Cleft Palate -Craniofacial Association. 4. Occasionally, children are born with birth defects like cleft palate that disrupt swallowing. 5. It is suspected he also had a partially cleft palate , another congenital defect. 6. Mutations in it are known to cause microtia, hearing impairment, and cleft palate . 7. Children with cleft palate typically have a variety of speech problems. 8. Hypernasal speech, or " hypernasality ", is primarily the result of cleft palate . 9. Mutations in the SATB2 gene have been found to cause isolated cleft palates . 10. Deletions, disruptions by Pierre Robin Sequence, often with a cleft palate .
