“EDEN”
A play by Eugene O Brien
[winner, best new play, Irish Times Theatre Awards]
in the
Millbank Theatre, Rush, Co. Dublin
on
Wednesday September 12th 2007 at 8.30pm
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CLAPAI now in Wikipedia!
The Cleft Lip and Palate Association of Ireland is now an encyclopaedia entry! Enshrined in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia no less! An article has been added detailing the Association and its activities.
Read the article here…
Operation Smile – Happy Anniversary
Operation Smile, a private, not-for-profit, volunteer medical services organization, provides free reconstructive surgery and related healthcare to children around the world born with cleft lip and/or palate.
Operation Smile was founded by Doctor William P Magee, a plastic surgeon, and his wife, Kathleen, in 1982. Operation Smile medical volunteers have treated more than 100,000 children worldwide since 1982 and currently has programs in 25 countries.
This year, Operation Smile commemorates its 25th anniversary, and its celebrations will culminate in November 2007 with the World Journey of Smiles, 43 simultaneous missions in 25 countries, with a goal of providing new smiles and new lives for an estimated 5,000 children living with facial deformities.
Happy 25th Anniversary to Operation Smile from the Cleft Lip and Palate Association of Ireland
Operation Smile Ireland
The growing interest from donors and medical professionals in Ireland about Operation Smile’s mission prompted the creation of Operation Smile Ireland in 2003.
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Are you on the social networking site Facebook?
Are you on the social networking site Facebook? Then you might like to hook up with the Cleft Lip & Palate Association of Ireland in that space. If you are there, and you have been affected by cleft lip and/or palate, maybe you can participate with us and make new friends through our group on this rapidly expanding social network site.
So login and hook up with us on Facebook!
Don’t know what Facebook is? Facebook is a social networking site that enables people with common interests and affiliations to network with one another. It is the largest such site on the Internet after MySpace.
Baby, just look at you now…
The following has been reproduced from the Derbyshire Times (UK, June 2001), courtesy of Jo Watson, baby Olivia’s mum.
How little Olivia has overcome problems to be an inspiration to others
Devastated Jo Watson’s world fell apart when she learned her unborn baby’s face was literally not joining together properly.
But in a few days’ time, the same child – born with a cleft lip and palate – is to be one of the prettiest stars of GMTV’s massive charity fund-raising drive, Get Up and Give.
TV bosses believe the way Jo and little Olivia have overcome their problems will act as an inspiration to others in the same situation. And charity chiefs at the Cleft Lip and Palate Association (CLAPA) hope that highlighting their brave plight will help a fund-raising drive.
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Cleft Lip & Palate – The Role of Speech & Language Therapy
A Presentation
This presentation was given by Julie Young at an Information Evening organised by the Association in St. James’s Hospital on Tuesday, 24th September, 2002. Julie was at that time a speech and language therapist attached to Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Dublin.
The role of the SLT is vital for a successful outcome to cleft treatment. Julie concentrates on speech and language therapy but also addressed feeding issues, highlighting the role in this respect of the SLT.
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Stickler Syndrome – Contact
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Theresa Corrigan, rx Tel. 042 9665548
A word from Theresa…
(2nd February 2002)
Hi everyone,
My name is Theresa Corrigan, I live in Bailieborough, Co. Cavan. My husband was born with a cleft palate and short chin, we know it as Pierre Robin Sequence (PRS). We have four children from 10 to 3. Two of the girls had PRS and a very traumatic start to life.
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Family Day 2007 a great success!
Our Family Day (Saturday, 16th June) was a great success, with the unseasonal weather failing to dampen spirits and curtail the fun. The light rain at midday and the low temperatures did not win out. From morning ’til late afternoon, some 35 families (72 adults and 76 children) had a wonderful time, with the army band performance being the highlight of the day. And of course http://www.mentalhealthupdate.com/valium.html there was the swimming, the gym activities, the t-shirt painting, bouncy castle and slide, the soccer, the teenage trek, and the army display! Not to forget the barbeque of course!
Many thanks to the Army for facilitating us again this year and helping out on the day.
See the slideshow below or visit our photo gallery!
Special Thanks to Marathon Runners!
We would like to extend a big ‘THANK YOU’ to all our runners in the recent Flora women’s mini-marathon. These include;
Anne O’Brien and the Rathangan runners, Karen O’Reilly, Michelle Connell, Louise Benson, Amber Baruch, Linda O’Crowley, Patricia Clifford, Louise Egar, Aoife Diamond, and those whose names are not readily to hand but who are equally near to our hearts for their efforts on behalf of the Association. If you have run on our behalf, and your name is not listed, do let us know and be immortalised in our ‘Roll of Honour’!
Also, if you ran and have photos, do send them in and we can make them available to view in our Gallery. Send digital copy to info@cleft.ie.
AGAIN, A BIG THANKS!
Epilepsy Sufferers – Lamictal Warning
The US Food and Drug Administration reported in Sept’06 that preliminary information from the North American Antiepileptic Drug Pregnancy Registry suggested that babies exposed to Lamictal during the first three months of pregnancy may have a higher chance of being born with a cleft lip or cleft palate.
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