Deborah,
I suspect that your sons' need for speech therapy and his high palate had
the same cause, rather than the palate causing the need for speech
therapy.  The tongue shapes the palate, a high, narrow palate is a clue
that the tongue has not spread it.  In a breastfed child, this is usually
due to either a restrictive lingual frenulum or a hypotonic tongue (or
both, in my son's case).  The problem with breastfeeding is less the
palate, and more the child's difficulty with tongue peristalsis or
elevation that caused the palate to be high in the first place.
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Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC  NYC  [log in to unmask]