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A conference of the ERASMUS+ project entitled SCR4Cleft took place on the 22nd July 2022 at the Auditorium of the Faculty of Health Sciences. This was organized by the Maltese partners, Prof Helen Grech f...
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SCR4Cleft was given some excellent publicity at the World Cleft Congress in Edinburgh mid-July 2022. https://www.scotsman.com/business/worlds-largest-cleft-care-conference-making-uk-debut-at-eicc-3763545
The conference kicked off with a keynote speech by Prof Nichola Rumsey who has been at the core of developing the project’s training materials. She re...
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The Erasmus+ SCR4Cleft project was presented at the traditional speech therapy Conference in Bulgaria - Albena 2022. The conference is being held for the eighth consecutive year. There were 120 delegates: speech therapists, psychologists, and teachers. The theme of this year's conference was "Social Challenges". The program included a one-hour Workshop on Speech, Communication and Resilience (SCR4Cleft) - an international project under the Erasmus+ program, developing a program ...
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The final meeting has just taken place in Rijswijk, Netherlands of the Speech, Communciation and Resilience project (SCR4Cleft), developed with the support of an EU Erasmus + grant.
The project has comprised partners from 9 countries and is coordinated by the European Cleft Organisation. The partnership has brought together experts in speech and language therapy and psychology to produce material that can be used to train non-specialists in aspects of communciation and res...
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On Jan 28, 2022 the meeting of healthcare professionals was held in Tartu University Hospital (Estonia) with more than 30 participants. The half-day SCR4CLEFT project introduction was given to the healthcare professionals. The Course was held as hybrid due to covid situation, but most of the participants attended face to face.
On May 20-21, 2022 Unimed Clinic's annual Spring Conference for health care professionals took place in Pärnu, Estonia with 370 participants...
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A working group hybrid meeting of the ERASMUS+ project entitled SCR4Cleft, has taken place on the 16 and 17 December 2021 at the University of Malta Valletta Campus. This was hosted by the Maltese partners, Prof Helen Grech from the Department of Communication Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences,and Prof Jean Calleja-Agius from the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine a...
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Gareth Davies, coordinator of the SCR4Cleft project, was given the opportunity to present on project progress at a Management Committee meeting of COST Action CA16234: European cleft and Craniofacial initiative for equality in care (ECCE), which took place in Talinn, Estonia on October 22, 2021.
Over 30 participants attended from 30 partner countries and there was a lot of interest in the SCR4Cleft project, especially from the speech therapists present. They are eager...
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The draft training modules - 6 modules for each age group 0-3 and 4-11 - were presented to a group of 54 health professionals in Tartu, Estonia on 10 September 2021. There was a lot of interest and we are wating for some more detailed feedback.
The Unimed spring conference took place in Pärnu, Estonia 3-4.06.2021. After the corona lockdown, it was great to meet colleagues face to face and listen to actual lectures. Altogether around 320 medical professionals attended that meeting.The EU project: Speech, Communication and Resilience (SCR4Cleft) - Supporting Parents of Children with Clefts was introduced to participants who took a great interest in the materials being produced.
A dissemination event of the SCR4CLEFT project was held in Tallinn, Estonia on September 11, 2020, by our Estonian partners.for more than 60 Speech and Language therapists. It was great to be able to hold this live training session after all teh lockdowns and those who partipated showed a huge interest in teh development of the course materials. We hope to have the draft training modules ready by spring 2021 and then all training partners will have the opporuntiy of piloting ...
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Gareth Davies was invited as a keynote speaker to presnt at a specialistspeech workshop at Val d'Hebron children's hospital in Barcelona, Spain on 21 February 2020. This was especially relevant to the SCR4Cleft project and the title of Mr Davies's talk was 'I sound different'. The focus was on Velopharyngeal Insufficiency which is sometimes present in children (and adults) born with a cleft and results in too much nasal air escape making it diffi...
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We were able to disseminate information about SCR4Cleft at a major Cost Action conference in Kristianstad, Sweden on 14 December 2019. The Action - ECCE - aims to study inequality in access to cleft care around Europe and make recommondations on improving access to services. There were 85 delegates present from 25 countries with high level keynote speakers focusing on the following
Gareth Davies was invited to present to health professionals and patients at 2 workshops at the Val d'Hebron children's hospital in Barcelona on 11 and 12 October 2019. The parents were especially interested to learn about the SCR4Cleft project given that many families struggle with supporting children born with clefts in speech development and confidence issues. He was invited back to a specific speech related event which will take place early in 2020.
Gareth Davies from the European Cleft Organisation ran a workshop for 20 front line health professioanls at the Sophia children's hospital in Rotterdam on 4 October 2019. The focus was about early feeding of babies born with clefts but this was a wonderful opportunity to talk about the SCR4Cleft project, especially given there were some speech therapists present as well as the coordinator of the European Reference Network for Craniofacial Anomalies.
The kick-off meeting for this a ground breaking new Erasmus+ project took place at the project coordinator’s head office (European Cleft Organisation) in Rijswijk on Wednesday 20 November 2019. 17 participants attended from 9 partner countries including the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Serbia, Norway, Romania, Estonia, Ireland, Italy and Malta. The thee-year project will, for the first time, bring together speci...
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