CFSGBI Conference 2026

The Craniofacial Society of Great Britain & Ireland 
Annual Scientific Meeting & CEN Day 2026

Wednesday 22 April 2026 (CEN day). The CFSGBI conference continues until Friday 24 April 2026 at the Grosvenor Hotel, Glasgow

The conference theme is “Realistic Cleft Care: Optimising Outcomes & Minimising Burden of Care.”

Registration: Registration is open and early bird rates are available until Wednesday 25 March 2026. Click here for more information.

We are delighted to share our Agenda with you for Wednesday 22nd April 2026 – Grosvenor Hotel, Glasgow

Speech and Language Therapy Cleft & Craniofacial CEN -Spring Study Day Agenda

The Craniofacial Society of Great Britain & Ireland

Annual Scientific Meeting 2026

9.15	REGISTRATION (Tea and Coffee available)
9.45	Welcome Chair and Treasurer AGM reports 2025-2026	Jo Waldron – Chair of the CEN Committee Claudine Milligan -Treasurer
9.55	Exploring children’s and young people’s experiences of cleft lip and palate multi-disciplinary clinics: a qualitative study.	Dr Danielle Feeney, Advanced Practitioner Speech and Language Therapist. NHS Tayside.
10.30	BREAK
11.00	Engaging the Unwilling Speaker: Neurodiversity, Submucous Cleft Palate and Severe Speech Disorder – A Case Study	Catrina Dyer Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
11.30	Outcome measures workshop – Current Tools, Gaps, and Next Steps.	Please come prepared to share the outcome measures your team uses and the rationale for your choices.
12.00	CRANE – A discussion about our data	CRANE
12.15	Beyond the Therapy Session: Home-Based Parent Training during Intervention	Triona Sweeny and Debbie Sell. Presented by Triona Sweeny
12.30	LUNCH
1.30	Measuring velopharyngeal competence: one cleft centre’s experience of VPC-sum and VPC-rate.	Dr Samantha Calladine, Acting Lead Clinician & Lead Specialist Speech and Language Therapist. Effie Jarvis, Speech and Language Therapist Catrina Dyer Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
2.00	Health Psychology and Speech & Language Therapy: Understanding Behaviour to Improve Outcomes.	Julie Davies Senior Specialist Speech & Language Therapist/ Health Psychologist.
2.30	A Career in Cleft	Lorraine Britton, Lead SLT for Trent Regional Cleft Network
3.00	BREAK
3.30	An Understanding of Moebius Syndrome for Speech and Language Therapists with a Case Study	Wendy Blumenow, Professional Lead Acute Speech & Language Therapy Service. Suzanne Wood, Professional Lead SLT for Cleft Service
4.00	Cleft Collective – what’s ‘appening?’	Yvonne Wren and Amy Davies Cleft Collective
4.20	CLAPA Campaigns and Services Update	Chief Executive: Claire Cunniffe, Policy and Campaigns Manager: Lachlan Bruce, Involvement Manager: Gillian McCarthy, Services Manager: Daniel Richards
4.40	Close and Feedback	Jo Waldron