by Georgia Duan | Jul 6, 2015 |
A list of blogs and ASHA features from past international trips.
by Georgia Duan | Jan 21, 2015 |
Below are some lovely pics of our final week in Addis, courtesy of our photographer, Josh Hays
by Georgia Duan | Jan 15, 2015 |
1/14/15 Hi all! Annie and Sam back again, reporting on our last full day in Addis. We started our day at the Joy Autism Center, part of the NIA foundation and the first school for children with autism in Ethiopia. The Joy Autism Center was founded 13 years ago by...
by Georgia Duan | Jan 14, 2015 |
1/13/15 Gregorian —– 5/5/2007 Ethiopian With sadness and a lot of laughter, we wrapped up our cleft palate workshop at Yekatit 12 Hospital today! The morning started off in typical fashion, with a dynamic lecture by Dr. Crowley on detection and treatment of submucous...
by Georgia Duan | Jan 13, 2015 |
Another day at Yekatit 12 for cleft palate training. We had another wonderful class/lecture in the morning featuring interactive role-playing between TC students and the rest of the class. The TC students role-played as patients while the other students acted as...
by Georgia Duan | Jan 12, 2015 |
1/11/15 Gregorian —– 5/3/2007 Ethiopian Back to the wonderful Nehemiah Autism Center! This morning we held a parent training. To our delight, twenty parents and family members attended. We incorporated a visual schedule as we did for the teacher training...
by Georgia Duan | Jan 11, 2015 |
1/10/15 Gregorian – – – – 5/2/2007 Ethiopian Greetings! Early this morning we met with our Ethiopian, Kenyan, Nigerian, and Ghanaian colleagues to initiate day 2 of cleft palate training and clinic. Josh, Lisa, and Jayne began by creating video...
by Georgia Duan | Jan 10, 2015 |
1/9/2015 – or 5/1/2007 according to the Ethiopian Calendar Josh Hays, our videographer (aka “the fly on the wall with a big camera”), finally arrived in Addis and joined the crew this morning. As soon as Josh loaded the van with his camera and...
by Georgia Duan | Jan 10, 2015 |
January 7th, 2015 Merry Christmas from Addis Ababa! The TC SLP team started off Christmas morning at a leisurely pace (apparently being transported back in time 8 years didn’t make any of us eager to rush downstairs at dawn), spending the morning chatting and...
by Georgia Duan | Jan 8, 2015 |
January 8th, 2015 Good morning from Rebecca (and the rest of the TC SLP team)! We woke up this morning to the news that the inclusive community school (St. Anthony’s) which we were scheduled to visit was still closed for Christmas break. Being the adaptable and...