Cleft and Craniofacial Autumn Study Morning 2025

We are delighted to share with your our Agenda for our Autumn Study morning. Please see details below.

Monday 17th November 2025 09:15-13:00

Virtual Study Day: Hosted by Microsoft Teams – see registration link below

Cost – Members (Ticket cost included in membership fee, please register for free ticket). Non members fee £35 (visit our website at https://cleftcen.org.uk to pay and then register)

Registration link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/9bbb083c-03b5-4fe1-bff0-9b4d9c850df4@d9365876-61eb-4bcc-a764-91400a304273

09.15	Welcome	Jo Waldron Chair of the CEN Committee
09.20	Honorary Membership presentation	Jo Waldron Chair of the CEN Committee
09.30	Treasurer’s Business Update	Claudine Milligan CENTreasuer
09.35	Sowing seeds for greater PPI involvement in research and audit.	Amanda Bates Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Lead at the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent.
10.00	Craniofacial overview Single suture Early Communication Intervention in craniofacial conditions. Syndromic Early Communication Intervention in craniofacial conditions.	Wendy Blumenow Head of Speech & Language Therapy Service at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital   Holly Standford Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Great Ormond Street Hospital       Emma Hankinson Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
10.45	Service user feedback	Sarah Lee Senior Speech and Language Therapist, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Managed Clinical Services
11.00	Tea/Coffee Break
11.15	Transition – applying key learnings from the Craniofacial Conference in April 2025	Sarah Lee Senior Speech and Language Therapist, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Managed Clinical Services
11.30	Case study with opportunity for transcription: exploring a complex speech profile for a child with a tracheostomy	Elaine O’Connor- Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Trent Regional Cleft Network Gemma Cuffe- Cleft Link Speech and Language Therapist, Lincolnshire Community Health Services
12.15	‘How to speed up your Articulation Therapy: Make Facilitative Contexts a key part of your assessment and therapy’	Jeni Halls and Steph Dunstan Specialist SLTs in SSD & Cleft in Plymouth
1.00	Thank you and Close	Jo Waldron Chair of the CEN Committee