The aim of palate cleft repair is to achieve velopharyngeal closure for speech recovery. It is very important for speech-language pathologist to understand how the velopharyngeal valve contributes to normal speech production and provide the effective suggestions for re-palatoplasty. However, because of lack the standard education and training in China, we propose a program about ability test of speech-language pathologist on assessment of velopharyngeal function according to our experience. We do hope to help and train the speech-language pathologist who can making the appropriate recommendations for treatment.
