My daughter is 18 months old and was born with soft cleft palate. I wanted to know if your babies have undergone speech therapy in Bangalore. If yes, at what age ? and for how long ?
Reply from Viji Srikanth and Santanu Ganguly would be appreciated.

Please advise me at the earliest.

Many thanks Rakesh replied. Hi,

This is Rakesh from Bangalore .Our son is 2 months old and having cleft palate.Can u please suggest any good Doctor/Hopital for cleft palate surgery ? Any body who already done the same .. PLease please help us. Parul replied. Hi, I have a 20 month old daughter, who was born with a cleft palate. Can somebody please tell me if your kid went through speech therapy and if yes then at what age? Also, do they talk all right now?. Would appreciate a response from Devika Chopra PP replied. Well my teenage cousin sister also had this problem and we got her treated in Vellore /CMC, when she just one year old and now she is 16 years. However, owing to our not so good financial condition we could not complete the whole process. She still suffers from problem in talking/her words are not clear as ours, moreover the signs of that surgery is also clearly visible giving her a lots of hardship and depression! And now that our condition has improved financially we are thinking of getting her treated properly, hence I was just wondering if you anyone of you can refer some reliable and affordable place where we can take her there. And we are from Delhi and won' t mind taking her to other places in need be for the betterment of her life. Thanks! xyz replied. My child had a problem of cleft lip and cleft palate. I am basicaly from Gujarat. I had done the first operation of the lip surgery in the month of 3 and the second surgery of the palate in the month of 9. By the grace of god, there was no need for my child to go to the speech therapist. We were constantly taking to him. And if his words were not clear we would ask him to repeat the words till we think he speaks that word clear. He is currently in Jr. Kg. We had a word about his speech with his teacher if she understands his speech. She said she had no problem in understanding his speech. I am an working women and i could not spend more time with my child. My mother,father, sister in law and brother stays in the same country and they helped me lot to cope up with my child.
Ritesh Joshi replied. Hi, my daughter is 3 weeks old and has unilateral cleft lip and palate which extends upto her voice box. Could you please suggest which hospital or doctor provide the best possible care in Mumbai.
Thanks & Gratitude Santosh replied. Hello Devika,
While searching on net, I come across your message. Actually this is not answering your question but just curious as how the treatment goes in India. I am currently in USA and my baby has cleft soft palate too. She is just 7 weeks old and doctor has suggested us to get the surgery done at 12 months of her age. But then, here it always gets treated with the cleft palate team.
I am planning to send my baby back to India for few months and your comments on this situation will be greatly aapreciated.

Thanks