Language outcomes are important

doi:10.1136/bmj.311.7017.1432

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Anne Harding,
Kim Harland

Chair, Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists specific interest group (cleft palate) Department of Human Communication, De Montfort University, Scraptoft, Leicester LE7 9SU
Specialist speech and language therapist St Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery, Billericay, Essex CM12 0BH

EDITOR,--Tony Markus and Peter Ward Booth report that the outcome of cleft lip and palate surgery in Britiain is poor compared with that in other European countries.1 It is regrettable that they refer only to the outcome measure of facial growth and make no reference to speech, which is recognised as an equally important indicator of the success of …