News
News and updates from across every CLAPA region
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Overseas |
The City Cambodia Project 2017: Weeks 9 & 10
Our role here is to train and empower others so that they can do the work after we leave, rather than to give children speech therapy. It can be tricky sometimes to separate these two things and ensure that we are not simply giving direct therapy, as this is not sustainable.
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Overseas |
The City Cambodia Project 2017: Week 8
To see the medical team and speech therapy team working collaboratively to decide on this patient’s care path was really encouraging and a great way to start the week as it shows the increased awareness and recognition speech and language therapy has gained since this project began 11 years ago.
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Parents | Research | Research Advertisements |
Tell Us Your Story
The Centre for Appearance Research is looking for parents of a child with a cleft aged between three and four in the UK. You will be invited to take part in a one-to-one telephone interview with a researcher about your experiences of having a child born with a cleft.
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Regional Coordinator for East of England
This post will be the first point of contact for CLAPA’s regional services in the East of England. The post holder will work with Branches and individual volunteers to organise local events and activities such as family fun days, summer picnics, and Christmas parties.
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NHS Cleft Services | Research Summaries |
Cleft Care in the UK: Where Are We Now?
At the turn of the century, UK cleft services were centralised into the Cleft Teams we know today. Now, a new study reveals which treatment outcomes have improved since then - and which are still lagging behind.
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Overseas |
The City Cambodia Project 2017: Week 7
"On Thursday it was day two of our time on the Smile Cambodia mission. The team were all happy to see us again and had another list of patients for us. Alongside seeing patients in our therapy room, we also visited patients post-surgery on the wards to give advice. The mission made us feel very valued as we really felt that the team were interested in hearing what we had to say."
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Fundraising Stories | Fundraising: Community |
#FundraisingFriday – Golden Phizzwizard
"In the words of Roald Dahl, yesterday was a ‘Golden Phizzwizard’ of a day as we all truly enjoyed getting into character. Everyone looked terrific and your ‘chidlers’ looked great covering pretty much every rhyme and book we have in our Roald Dahl section in the library
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Overseas |
The City Cambodia Project 2017: Week 6
In Cambodia there is not a Council that sets standards for things like progress notes and documentation. We realised the full effects of this today when we asked to see the speech notes of a patient who had been to the clinic four times previously. This made the session very difficult as there was no record of previous therapy or the speech sounds being targeted.
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Fundraising Stories | Fundraising: Community |
A Frighteningly Good #FundraisingFriday
Mum-to-be Leanne has raised nearly £500 for CLAPA with her Halloween-themed bake sale - well done to Leanne and everyone who helped at East Riding College!
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Fundraising Stories | Fundraising: Community |
Rick – an in memorial pub crawl
In August 1997, on the Bank Holiday Monday, Damien Honey and some of his friends met to take part in the Rick Parsons Memorial Pub Crawl, raising money for medical charities with a connection to Richard's condition.
