velopharyngeal dysfunction

How Is VPI Treated?

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How Is VPI Treated? VPI is treated with surgery or a special speech appliance that your child wears in their mouth. VPM is treated with speech therapy. VP incompetence is treated with speech therapy and sometimes with a speech appliance or surgery. How is velopharyngeal insufficiency treated? The treatment of velopharyngeal insufficiency or velopharyngeal incompetence

Can You Correct Hypernasal Speech After Cleft Lip Repair?

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Can You Correct Hypernasal Speech After Cleft Lip Repair? Speech therapy cannot correct VPI. Speech therapy can only correct abnormal placement, including compensatory productions that result in nasal emission after VPI is corrected. Do not use blowing exercises, sucking exercises, velar exercises or oral-motor exercises! How can Nasalization be reduced? Does cleft palate affect speech