Tagged with: Northern Ireland
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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.
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Fundraising Preference Service Goes Live
The Fundraising Preference Service is a way for the public to opt-out of communications from different charities. Find out more about how CLAPA uses your information, how we fundraise, and what you can do to change how you'd like to be contacted.
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Awareness Week 2017 – What Have We Been Up To?
As Awareness Week 2017 draws to a close, we look back on some of this week's highlights and how we'll be taking this forward throughout the next year.
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#FundraisingFriday – William sets off for Kilimanjaro
A huge good luck to William, who is flying out today! William is heading to Tanzania, in order to start his attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain!
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Huge News!
This is the first blog I’ve written for a while but I’m writing it at a very exciting time for CLAPA. We have recently found out that an application we submitted to the Big Lottery Fund was successful! The grant of £323,076 will enable us to continue to employ Regional Coordinators in the East, Central and South East of England.
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Surgery and Anaesthesia Focus Groups
Surgery and anaesthesia are only performed when it is decided that the benefits are greater than the risks. Labratory and clinical research has shown that the addition of Xenon, a rare anaesthetic gas, may improve anaesthesia for young children.
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CLAPA Blog: Northern Ireland
Hi all! For those who I have not yet met or spoken to, I have been at CLAPA for 4 months now as the Engagement Officer and loving every minute of it!
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Research: decision making in cleft lip and/or palate treatment
Would you be interested in taking part in research into decision making in cleft lip and/or palate treatment?
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CLAPA Half Marathons!
Support CLAPA by running a HALF MARATHON this year. We need runners to join #TEAMCLAPA in 2017.
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Speech Processing Research
We're looking for people to contribute to a new study, run by Lucy Southby at the University of Bristol, looking at speech processing skills in children born with a cleft palate, to see how it relates to how their speech sounds.
