Keynote address to the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland Virtual Conference

The Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland Virtual Conference is being held on 9-10 September 2021 https://cfsgbi21.online/. It is a pleasure to be invited to present at the 2021 virtual conference whose theme is "Making a Difference". There were 163 people online during my keynote address.

Originally, I was invited to present the keynote address in Cardiff Wales in April 2020. However, the 2020 conference was postponed due to COVID restrictions.

My 2021 presentation is titled: "Making a difference to children's ability to communicate and participate" and profiles my work of Dr Anna Cronin, Dr Sarah Verdon and Dr Yvonne Wren and colleagues:

1. Cronin, A., Verdon, S., & McLeod, S. (2021). Persistence, strength, isolation and trauma: An ethnographic exploration of raising children with cleft palate. Journal of Communication Disorders, 106102. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2021.106102 
2. Cronin, A., Verdon, S., & McLeod, S. (2020). Working with toddlers with cleft palate: Learning from clients and families Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology, 22(2), 101–107. https://speechpathologyaustralia.cld.bz/JCPSLP-Vol-22-No-2-2020/30/ 
3. Cronin, A., McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. (2020). Holistic communication assessment for young children with cleft palate using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health:Children and Youth. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 51(4), 914–938. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_LSHSS-19-00122 
4. Cronin, A., McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. (2020). Applying the ICF-CY to specialist speech-language pathologists’ practice with toddlers with cleft palate speech. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 57(9), 1105–1116. https://doi.org/10.1177/1055665620918799 
5. Seifert, M., Davies, A., Harding, S., McLeod, S., & Wren, Y. (2021). Intelligibility in 3-year-olds with cleft lip and/or palate using the Intelligibility in Context Scale: Findings from the Cleft Collective Cohort Study. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/1055665620985747

 

My presentation is available here: https://prod-stitched-screen-recordings.s3-ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/recordings/ebfddbf0-0420-11ec-b585-7f7404f40a84/c1929699-6b74-4af3-907f-636ab4c61c7e/ebfddbf0-0420-11ec-b585-7f7404f40a84_80aedccb.mp4