Ghana January 2014: Following up with Faruk and family

We all expected a simple happy story when we arrived in Larabanga to meet Faruk and his family. However, we witnessed the social and financial impact that cleft lip and palate has on families in developing nations all over the world. Faruk’s father rejected him...

Ghana January 2014: Fourth and Final Day at Korle Bu

Today was our final day at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. We spent the morning providing outpatient speech and language therapy to patients who ranged in age and diagnosis, from adult stroke patients to young children with hearing loss, and everything in between! We are...

Ghana January 2014: Day 2 at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital

Oh hello there! Today was another busy, but amazing, day filled with many, many, exciting patient assessment and treatment sessions. We continued our therapeutic strategies with patients who had returned from yesterday and developed new strategies and assessment tools...