PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - K N Pearl AU - S Dickens AU - P Latham TI - Functional palatal incompetence in the fetal anticonvulsant syndrome. AID - 10.1136/adc.59.10.989 DP - 1984 Oct 01 TA - Archives of Disease in Childhood PG - 989--990 VI - 59 IP - 10 4099 - http://adc.bmj.com/content/59/10/989.short 4100 - http://adc.bmj.com/content/59/10/989.full SO - Arch Dis Child1984 Oct 01; 59 AB - We report two children with mild mental retardation and appreciable articulation difficulties whose mothers took phenobarbitone and phenytoin throughout their pregnancies. The speech difficulties in both children were due to malfunction of an anatomically normal palate.