Parental Reactions to Cleft Palate Children.

Vanpoelvoorde, Leah; Shaughnessy, Michael F.

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ERIC Number: EJ444498

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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Parental Reactions to Cleft Palate Children.

Vanpoelvoorde, Leah; Shaughnessy, Michael F.

B.C. Journal of Special Education, v15 n3 p276-83 1991

This paper reviews parents' emotional reactions following the birth of a cleft lip/palate child. It examines when parents were told of the deformity and discusses the duties of the speech-language pathologist and the psychologist in counseling the parents and the child. (Author/JDD)

Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cleft Palate, Counselor Role, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Response, Parent Attitudes, Parent Counseling, Psychologists, Speech Pathology, Speech Therapy, Staff Role, Therapists

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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