News
News and updates from across every CLAPA region
-
Research | Research Advertisements | Young People |
Survey: 16-18 Year Olds With a Cleft
Get a free £10 Amazon Voucher when you take part in this short questionnaire about your experiences of being born with a cleft lip and palate! Matthew is a researcher looking into resilience and how to help young people like you cope better with any challenges they face growing up.
-
Overseas | Volunteering Stories |
City Cambodia Project 2017: Weeks 4 & 5
On Monday we did our first training session at CSC. We taught Vin about the anatomy and physiology of the speech system. We also began to teach her about speech sound production
-
Adult Issues | Fundraising: Trusts & Foundations |
Adult Services Secured with VTCT Grant
CLAPA is thrilled to announce we have received a grant from the VTCT Foundation to fund an Adult Support Programme which will take place over the next three years.
-
South Wales CLAPA Christmas Party
Our annual party hosted by the South Wales Branch of the Cleft Lip and Palate Association will be held on December 2nd at the University hospitals sports and social club!!
-
World Smile Day |
World Smile Day – Matilda’s Make-up Masterclass
Yesterday we headed down to #UDCarnaby for a fantastic make-up masterclass, run by the indomitable Matilda Lansdown! We had an amazing time and we hope the many people who came down had a equally fantastic time!
-
Overseas |
The City Cambodia Project 2017: Weeks 1 – 3
Sous-dey from Cambodia! We are Caitlin and Helena and we are Speech and Language Therapists from City, University of London. We represent the cleft team as part of the City-Cambodia Project 2017. We are living and volunteering in various hospitals in Phnom Penh for the next three months.
-
Fundraising Stories | World Smile Day | Your Stories |
World Smile Day – Sophie, Jadie, and Ivy
Ivy was born with an undiagnosed bilateral cleft lip and palate, the most severe cleft you can have. It was a huge shock, but after a few weeks of talking to the amazing cleft team at the hospital, receiving support from the CLAPA Charity and spending time with my beautiful girl, the shock slowly disappeared and we started to forget that she was different to other babies.
-
Fundraising Stories | Fundraising: Community | World Smile Day |
Matilda’s Make-up Masterclass
My name is Matilda Lansdown, 26, business manager for Urban Decay cosmetics. Born with a right bilateral cleft lip and palate, I have undergone approximately 13 corrective procedures in my lifetime, not quite finished my orthodontics though.
-
Children & Young People's Stories | Your Stories |
Dylan’s Story
Hi, I’m Dylan and I was born with a Cleft lip and Palate, I am 10. I had my first two operations done when I was 3 and 6 months old, I don’t remember them obviously. I had my bone graft operation done in the Queen Elizabeth hospital in March 2017.
-
Children & Young People's Stories |
My Cleft Story – #3
My final instalment deals with something that was really quite difficult although it all worked out well in the end. When I was 9 I went back to GOSH for an alveolar bone graft, the first operation I really can remember.
