Communicative Disorders Related to Cleft Lip and Palate

Communicative disorders have become a part of the work of many medical specialists. The problems of managing such disorders are best exemplified by examining the services for the child born with cleft palate. In this book on the subject, divided into five parts, the "team" is shown to function effectively as each author relates his specialty to many of the others. The blending of social services, dentistry, surgery, psychology, radiology, speech pathology, and otolaryngology as described, may, in many ways, be portraying the future of interdisciplinary professional activities. As a specific treatise on cleft palate, the book is exciting, well-documented, and very readable. Because communication embodies more than a simple motor act, the volume begins with a general psychosocial context and proceeds through causation, before the specific types of communicative disorders are described. Diagnostic measurement is extensively explored, while the last section takes up a variety of concepts dealing with