Essential Question: Essential Question: What do parents need to know when they have a child born with cleft lip/palate?

Foundation Questions:
1.What are the things that can cause a child to be born with a cleft palate?
2.Where can they go to find out more information?
3.Where can they go to find support?
4.What sort of emotions can they expect to go through?

I hope to provide information for the general public/anyone landing on my site about what parents of cleft palate children face before and after the child's birth and where they can find helpful information and support.

Genres: I plan to include the following genres:
Webliography: My personal voice
Powerpoint Presentation: Parents Voice
Poem: Cleft Palate Group Supporter
Pamphlet: Cleft Palate Foundation Voice
Journal Entries: Parents Voice
Email Exchange: Parent and Support Group Members (Mailing List members)
Family Newsletter: Parents Voice

The potential audience could be the public and future parents of cleft palate children.

I hope to tie all seven genres together with the a Family Newsletter written by parents of a newly born child that is cleft affected. I hope to carry out the MRP using this same family in the other genres. I chose these genres because I feel they will provide the viewer with a sense of "realism" and can be used to create a personal connection with the family for the reader.

Tentative Resources:

1. Nagourney, Eric. (4/11/2000) Linking Cleft Palates and Smoking Moms. New York Times, Vol.149,Issue 51355,pF8,1c. Retrieved from EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite on September 29,2002.

2. Bebout, L., Arthur, B. (February 1992) Cross-cultural attitudes toward speech disorders. Journal of Speech & Hearing Research, Vol.158, Issue 10,pB865. Retrieved from EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite on October 5, 2002.

3. no author noted. (1999), European Journal of Pediatrics, Vol.158, Issue 10, p,B865. Retrieved by EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite on October 5, 2002.

4. Chow, Lai Wan Filomena. (May 2002) Psychosocial dimensions in caring: The lived experience of parents after the birth of children with cleft lip/ and or palate. Dissertation Abstract International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, Vol.62(10B), p 4462. Retrieved from EBSCOHost MEDLINE on October 5, 2002.

5.Kanal, Barbara H. (May 1999) Attitudes of mothers and fathers toward their child with a cleft lip and palate. Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol.59(11-A), p. 4282. Retrieved from EBSCOHost MEDLINE on October 5, 2002.

6.Edmonson, Rebecca; Reinhartsen, Debra. (October 1998) The Young Child with Cleft Lip and Palate: Intervention Needs in the First Three Years. Infants and Young Children. Vol.11, p 12-20. Retrieved from EBSCOHost (ERIC) on October 13, 2002 on the World Wide Web.

7.Savage, Hallie E. (December 1997) An Early Intervention Guide to Infants Born with Clefts. Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal. Vol.7, p 271-84. Retrieved from EBSCOHost (ERIC) on October 13, 2002 on the World Wide Web.

8.Vanpoelvoorde, Leah; Shaughnessy, Michael F. (1991) Parental Reactions to Cleft Palate Children, B.C. Journal of Special Education, Vol. 15, p 276-83. Retrieved from EBSCOHost (ERIC) on October 13, 2002 on the World Wide Web.

9.(1999) School Shooting. Scholastic Action-Teachers. Vol. 23, Issue 1, p 4. Retrieved from EBSCOHost (Primary Search) on October 5, 2002 on the World Wide Web.

10.Cleft Palate Foundation (December 1994) Cleft Lip and Palate are the Fourth Most Frequent Birth Defects in the United States. Pediatrics. Vol. 94, Issue 6, p 901. Retrieved from EBSCOHost (Academic Search Elite) on October 5, 2002 on the World Wide Web.

Well, since this is my journal I will use this space to vent a little bit. I am really beginning to dispise this 315 class. I end every week sitting on my computer trying to beat the clock and finish all of my assignments before midnight. I am stressed out to the max and deciding to take this class this semester has been the biggest mistake ever. I am not the only one who feels this way...I am just the only one who will say it or type it for the world to see. I am so frustrated that I want to put my head through my monitor. I have came close to tears a few times but just decided to scream instead. All I know is that at the end of the semester I hope I haven't quit the CD program. Now on to my journal entry...

This week has not had very many good moments just like the weeks past. I enjoyed the MOO portion on Wednesday evening and I enjoy reading my mailing lists emails-when I get an opportunity. I have not completed the Project Prospectus yet and do not look forward to doing it. My essential question is probably going to be changing anyway so... I did a few of my assignments earlier in the week. I haven't ran across anything I can forward to someone else collaboratively so far. I have been only seeing things related to cleft palate and no one else is doing their MRP on that topic. I did find out that TLC is airing cleft palate repairs on thier PERSONAL STORY show during one of my searches. (I love TLC shows.) Unfortunately I won't get to see them because I have to spend my whole live long day at Marshall Monday-Friday. Well, I guess I have complained enough for now. Maybe next week will be better. (I keep telling myself that...I'm not sure I believe me though.)
Cindy
PS. nothing personal against Mrs. McComas-I really like her-just not this class.