Chacon A, et al. - This research entailed the analysis of the phonetic and phonological speech skills of children with a cleft palate at ages 3 and 5. Such children displayed the tendency for phonetic and phonological speech errors in their preschool years. A majority of these speech errors approximated the typically-developing children by 5 years. It was discovered that word shape exerted an impact on the phonological speech accuracy, at 3 years. Speech pathology intervention aided in supporting the intelligibility of these children from their very initial stages of development.