Comprehensive Cleft Care

Book excerpt: "Designed to meet the educational needs of families of children with clefts, this book contains chapters written in layperson language that mirror a corresponding chapter in the professional text. The book contains several useful features for families, including a glossary, a timeline for cleft care, and a condensed, lay interpretation of the Parameters of Care. Topics include fundamentals, psychosocial and educational aspects, cleft lip and palate repair, cleft palate speech and hearing, airway and breathing issues, and dental and orthodontic principles. Two parents of cleft-affected children have been recruited as co-editors to help ensure quality content"--