a charity organization to help children around the world with cleft lip and cleft palates. Organization Method: Problem-Solution I. Introduction As I turn through the channels on television this small child with a cleft lip catches my eye. I began to watch and educated myself about the child. Operation Smile is a non-profit organization based in Norfolk‚ Virginia. Operation was founded in 1982 to provide cleft lip and palate repair surgeries to children worldwide. I am here today to
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The Background- What is Cleft Lip & Palate Cleft lip and cleft palate are birth defects that occur when a baby’s lip or mouth do not form properly. This defect also affects the nose too. These birth defects together are commonly referred to as “orofacial clefts” which happen early during pregnancy. A baby can have a cleft lip‚ a cleft palate‚ or both1. Every year over 19‚000 children in Africa are born with clefts. Though completely treatable‚ less than half get the treatment they desperately
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Speech Therapy Cleft lip and/or palate have many implications on speech‚ so an integral part of repair is speech therapy provided by a speech-language pathologist. Due to cleft lip and/or palate’s effect on speech and language development‚ speech therapy is an important part of the treatment process. Speech therapy can help children learn how to properly use their articulators after the anatomy has been structurally repaired. Speech therapy helps with the articulation and language development early
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Case Study 20: The Digestive and Urinary Systems 1) Marissa‚ a newborn with a cleft lip and palate‚ is the third child of Juan and Maria. Both Juan and Maria are “visually alarmed” at Marissa’s appearance; however‚ Juan is more distant and reserved. Maria is very concerned with Marissa’s wellbeing and future and seems to take blame for Marissa’s physical condition. 2) The incidence of cleft lip (CL) with or without cleft palate (CP) is approximately 1 in 800 live births. The incidence of CP alone
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Annotated Bibliography Coad‚ David. "Hymens‚ Lips and Masks: The Veil in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale." Literature and Psychology 47.1 & 2 (2001): 54-67. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 246. Detroit: Gale‚ 2008.Literature Resource Center. Web. 22 Mar. 2013. David Coad takes an in depth look into the “veils” found in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Throughout the essay‚ he connects these symbolic “veils” to the general theme of gender oppression‚ relating it to the feminism
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Experiment 8 “Lipids” and the purpose of the lab is to become familiar with the properties and reactions of certain lipids called fats or oil. For this lab‚ students are testing the properties and reactions of lipids and soap will be prepared and its properties will be tested. To begin the experiment‚ place 5 mls of water‚ ethyl alcohol‚ chloroform‚ and toluene in to four clean test tubes and add 1 drops of cottonseed oil to each test tube. Shake it and record your observation. To do part B‚ in three
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The two poems I chose to write about are Elizabeth Bishops “One Art” and “What my lips have kissed” by Edna St. Vincent Millay’s. I chose both of these because they both in a way are describing love‚ and loss for something or someone. Even though they do not come right out and say it‚ both poems deal with love and the loss they have experienced. In Bishops poem she talks about how losing comes at ease and how nothing that has been lost has been disastrous. However‚ in the last stanza of her poem
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skilled observers‚ to detect some submucous clefts. It is also difficult to determine the incidence of submucous cleft palate‚ because many do not cause any problems and therefore remain undiagnosed. A submucous cleft palate may occur with a cleft lip‚ but the majority occurs in isolation. Submucous clefts can cause early feeding difficulties‚ speech problems and associated ear problems. Practice varies from place to place‚ but most centers do not automatically operate on submucous clefts. Each
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Conclusion Cleft palate is recognized as the fourth most common congenital malformation‚ and is a key feature of over 200 syndromes (Cielo & Marcus‚ 2015). Researchers universally recognize the importance of a multidisciplinary team approach when evaluating and treating CLP patients. CLP creates deficits in feeding‚ swallowing‚ respiratory function‚ and speech among many others insufficiencies due to velopharyngeal incompetence (Ysunza et al.‚ 2015). Evaluations for feeding‚ swallowing‚ and speech
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Gender Roles in Dry Lips oughta move to Kapuskasing Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing‚ written by Tomson Highway‚ is a play that transports the audience into the mind of the protagonist‚ Zachary Jeremiah Keechigeesik‚ whose community experiences the many obstacles and after-effects inflicted by oppression. The play takes place at Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve and starts with a stark naked Zachary in the home of Big Joey. The audience later finds out that Zachary and Big Joey are running against
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