Abstract: Patients with cleft palate often have pathological speech.An important objective of palatoplasty is to restore normal speech by recovering velopharyngeal normal anatomical form and function. Evaluation of velopharyngeal function is an important approach to evaluate the postoperative therapeutic effectiveness and to guide the selection of various operation methods for cleft palate.To provide reference for clinicians to select assessment means and operation types, methods of evaluating the velopharyngeal normal anatomical form and function are reviewed in this article.

Key words: cleft palate, velopharyngeal function, imageology, evaluation