Cleft lip and cleft palate are birth defects. Find out how you get it, what doctors can do, and how to live with it in this article for kids from Kids Health.

Language and speech are constructed by the working together of one's lips, jaw, tongue, teeth and palate. Learn what dificulties a cleft lip or palate infant may face learning to speak and the ways to overcome these obstacles.

Arvfurstens Palats (Stockholm)

Find information on the mouth (oral cavity), lips and cheeks, palate, tongue, and teeth. This website provides brief descriptions of the roles of each, as well as an image of the mouth with its parts labelled.

Operation Smile coordinates medical volunteers who provide surgeries to repair children's cleft lips and palates.

Ancient Scripts features a tutorial on phonetics and the terminology used to describe the sounds and the tones that make up spoken language.

This resource offers an excellent definition of the species, Australopithecus afarensis.

This simple chart lists the 39 consonants and the 5 vowels of the Khowar language. It explains how to pronounce each of them, as well. Included are many links for other aspects of the Khowar language.

The Chisel-toothed Kangaroo Rat has chisel-shaped lower incisors, with which it strips the epidermis from the leaves of desert shadscale or saltbush, thereby reaching the palatable and water-rich interior of the leaf. This Kangaroo Rat...