Tagged with:Adult Issues
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Awareness Week 2018: Jenny’s Story
“I love the person I’ve become because I fought to become her.” Find out more about how cleft lip and palate affects adults, and what CLAPA is doing to help.
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Adult Services Project
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Dentists and Cleft: A look at the Role of Restorative Dentists in a Cleft Team
As part of a cleft team, a restorative dentist will work with other specialists from different disciplines to provide the patient with a cleft lip and/or palate with necessary information, support, and care as they follow their treatment plan and consider their options from childhood into adulthood. This article is intended to offer insight into the role of a restorative dentist in treatment related to cleft lip and/or palate, and to highlight the dental treatment that people born with a cleft have access to.
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Have Your Say: The CET Project
Emma Southby, an experienced Cleft Nurse Specialist and a previous CLAPA Trustee, is looking for interviewees for an exciting new venture to create new educational resources for health professionals across Europe.
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Karen’s Story
Karen was born in 1952 with a cleft lip and palate. Here in her own words she tells her story of growing up with a cleft, and returning to treatment as an adult.
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Psychologists and Cleft: A look at the Role of a Clinical Psychologist in a Cleft Team
On Saturday 8th July, Dr Kate le Marechal and I, both clinical psychologists from the South Thames Cleft Service (based at St Thomas’ Hospital) were lucky enough to be invited to speak at the inaugural CLAPA Adult Conference at the Ibis Hotel in Euston, London.
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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.
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Changes to CLAPA’s Peer and Parent Support Service
Our UK-wide support service for parents and adults with a cleft is now safer and easier to use than ever before.
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Adult Voices Council: An Update
An update from CLAPA's Adult Voices Council about their plans for the future, as well as a report from one of the Co-Chairs about a recent presentation he gave at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
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Suzzie’s Story
Suzzie was born with a cleft lip and palate in 1989. This is her story about growing up with a cleft, dealing with multiple surgeries, and how she learned to love what makes her unique.
