"COMMUNICATION +" PROJECT 2015
MARCH
Starting in February and throughout the months of March and April, we supported the free 'Special Wheelchair Donation Camps for Children with Cerebral Palsy' organized by Cerebral Palsy Lanka Foundation as part of their 'Thousand wheelchairs donation campaign'. Members of our staff, Extended Faculty and colleagues assisted the speech and language therapists of the Dream Centre to offer simple, concise workshops on supporting safe feeding of children with cerebral palsy and demonstrated alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) methods to encourage communication at mealtimes and during the day.
We were able to support the following camps:
- Anuradhapura - 22nd February 2015
- Moneragala - 01st March 2015
- Jaffna - 08th March 2015
- Kandy - 15th March 2015
- Ratnapura - 22nd March 2015
- Kurunegala - 29th March 2015
- Batticaloa - 12th April 2015
For more information, please visit http://www.cplanka.org
"COMMUNICATION +" PROJECT 2015
FEBRUARY
A Continuous Professional Development workshop on Electrophysiologic Hearing Assessment was offered on the 10th of February 2015 from 9.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. to working Audiologists and trainee Audiology students. The resource person was Mr. Samuel Mani, Clinical Application Manager, Natus – for the Asia Pacific Region. The workshop covered Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR), Auditory Steady State Response (ASSR), Cochlear Hydrops Analysis Masking Procedure (CHAMP), Trouble-shooting the Biologic Navigator Pro system together with hands-on demonstrations, and a Question and Answer session. The workshop programme was sponsored by Meditechnology Pvt Ltd.
"COMMUNICATION +" PROJECT 2015
JANUARY
Our first event for the year was a guest lecture by Pubodha Sarani, Brayan Susantha, Geshani Amila, Mohamed Razak and Sumudu Sulochana, who are colleagues from the Sri Lanka Central Federation for the Deaf (SLCFD). Each speaker shared his/her experience of undertaking research on sign language, sign linguistics and/or Deaf culture. The lecture was open to final year Speech and Hearing Sciences students who are due to undertake their individual research projects this year. The lecture was delivered in Sri Lankan Sign Language and translated into spoken Sinhala.
