Yes we can
Author: Lois Cameron
Magazine issue: Summer 10
Page numbers: 19-21
Date: 31 May 2010
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Kenya has a population of 37 million with a maximum of eight speech and language therapists working in pressurised and isolated circumstances. Lois Cameron lived in Nairobi as a child. In 2009 she returned for the 3rd East African Speech and Language Therapy Conference, running two training sessions in Talking Mats. Delegates came from a wide variety of professions and included speech and language therapy representation from Uganda and Ghana. Lois outlines factors around awareness, training, funding, culture and attitudes that affect people with communication difficulties, their families and services. She then considers how we can apply this knowledge to professional work in the UK, in particular through questioning our attitudes to diversity, training, sustainability and working with others.
