Word: harelip
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...malady caused by poor speech habits or by defects in the organs or brain center of speech. If a patient has no soft palate, he cannot pronounce k and g; if he has no hard palate, he has trouble with t, d, n, r, 1; if he has a harelip, he cannot make the sounds p, m, f, v, w. Such people need surgical treatment, or perhaps a mechanical palate. Their main problem is to expel air through the mouth, not the nose. To learn this, they blow soap bubbles and rubber balloons, sometimes hold to their lips an "airflow...