Craniofacial Conference CFSGBI 2025

This year’s CFSGBI conference takes place in Newcastle, and is the 40th Birthday of the society. The celebratory themes are:

Celebration, Ambition, Reflection and Excellence

These themes should help us look back at what we have achieved, as well as helping us to look forward, building on that knowledge base and energy to drive UK Cleft Care and the CFSGBI society into another exciting decade.

The SLT cleft and craniofacial anomalies CEN will be running a CEN day on Wednesday 30th April. Tickets for this are to be bought through the CFSGBI and include the CEN day and social event at the end of the day.

Spring Study Day Agenda

Wednesday 30th April, 2025 – Crowne Plaza, Newcastle

Registration:  CFSGBI2025

9.15	Registration (Tea and Coffee available)
9.45	Welcome Chair and Treasurer AGM reports 2024-2025	Jo Waldron Jo Waldron- Chair of the CEN Committee Rhian Hoccom -Treasurer
9.55	Speech Path App update	Claudine Milligan Speech Therapist with the North West, Isle of Man and North Wales Cleft Lip and Palate Network. Speech therapist with the Craniofacial team at Alder Hey
10.00	A look at Non-cleft data from 3 regional centres	Lucy McAndrew Deputy Lead Speech and Language Therapist Spires Cleft Centre and Oxford Craniofacial Unit
10.30	Investigating complex expressive language in children with cleft lip and palate	Ellen McGinley Fourth-year SLT student on the Masters in Speech and Language Sciences program at Newcastle University
11.10	TEA/COFFEE BREAK
12.00	Dear Cleft Clinicians, improvements to cleft care starts with you and this is why….	Julie Davies Senior Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Manchester University
12.30	LUNCH
1.30	Speaking the same language: The importance of agreed terminology in speech and language therapy	Professor Helen Stringer Newcastle University

2.15	How can CLAPA help the SLT CEN ensure access to speech and language therapy.	Claire Cunniffe, CEO CLAPA, and Lachlan Bruce, Policy and Campaigns Manager, CLAPA
2.30	Making sense of speech intelligibility outcome data: Findings from the Cleft Collective	Amy Davies, Sharynne McLeod, Yvonne Wren Presented by Yvonne Wren, Chief Investigator of the Cleft Collective and Amy Davies Research Coordinator of the Cleft Collective
3.00	BREAK
3.30	Cleft Palate in Apert Syndrome	Nivi Behari Principal Craniofacial Speech and language therapist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
4.00	Raising Awareness of Dosage in Speech Sound Disorder – an introduction to this new group with Q&A	Helene Somerville Cleft Specialist SLT, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Founding Member
4.30	“CLEFT – Bridging the Gap – what we would like you to do”	Brian Sommerlad Chairman of CLEFT – “partially retired” cleft surgeon – first director of the North Thames Cleft Service
4.40	CLOSE	Jo Waldron