Cleft treatment has got an amount of publicity recently. There were two articles in the Irish Times Health Supplement on the 23rd March. The main article dealt with the current crisis in Speech Language Therapy services with contributions from several voluntary organisations including CLAPI. The second article was specifically about Cleft treatment & early SLT intervention. Again CLAPAI made a contribution to this article.
Listeners to the Marian Finucane’s radio show would have been pleasantly surprised to hear Mr. Orr talking about his recent work with Operation Smile. This organisation does incredible work in developing countries with medical volunteers and international fund raising. Between May – Oct 2003 1402 people were treated. Currently Mr. Earley is in Russia. We hope to hear more about Operation Smile and the Irish connection at our next information Evening.
