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The author described how we look at a face. We usually focus on main features, switching from one another in a pattern. The normal pattern is usually from top of face to bottom focusing mostly on the eyes, then nose, then mouth and so forth. They also note documentation of how people will focus on a facial feature that draws to their “emotions.” With this in mind I started thinking about the way I look at someone's face, and how it has changed over recent years. In the past I would start at the eyes and continue once-round the face, but mainly focus on peoples eyes (as my mom thought me to always look people in the eyes). I've found however, that since my son Nathan was born with a cleft lip and palate, I tend to look at the ridge of the lips as well as the shape of peoples' nose, whether or not they have a cleft.

Both groups of individuals spent more time looking at pictures of people affected by clefts, but the time-spent by participants with facial differences was remarkable. When I think of a reference they make to people focusing first and longer on features that draw to their emotions --- it sure makes sense that not only those who were born with a cleft, but also those who have shared or experienced though someone vicariously (like myself – a parent), spend more time focusing on the feature that we can relate to emotionally.

Bianca Turner (Program Director)

Please follow the link below to read the article yourself!

This article I read was posted in Medical News Today: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/222459.php

It has cited a journal entry from The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal:http://www.cpcjournal.org/

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