Smile Train Guyana, in collaboration with Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), last week hosted an unprecedented intensive Cleft Palate Speech Therapy Training programme for local speech therapists and rehabilitation assistants in Guyana, a release from the GPH stated.
Smile Train is the world’s largest cleft-focused organisation, with a sustainable and local model of supporting surgery and other forms of essential care. Over the last 25 years, it has supported safe, high-quality, and free cleft care for over two million children.
This first-of-its-kind training, the release explained, took place from July 21 to 26, and brought together representatives from the David Rose School for the Handicapped, Palm’s Rehabilitation Clinic, Diamond Special Needs Speech Therapy and Audiology Centre, Ministry of Education Diagnostic Centre, Ptolemy Reid Centre, Fort Wellington Hospital, and Lethem Regional Hospital.