Hong Kong Association for Cleft Lip and Palate

Introduction

Being a registered non profit organization and charitable institution exempt from tax under Section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance, Hong Kong Association for Cleft Lip and Palate is the one-one in Hong Kong that provide support services for patients with cleft lip/palate and their parents / caretakers, as well as pregnant mothers bearing affected babies. We are also members of Hong Kong Council of Social Service, Alliance for Patients Organizations and Hong Kong Committee on Children’s Rights.

We aim to gather the patients and parents in the territory under one roof and provide a wide range of services designed specifically for them to ensure healthy physical and psychological growth of the patients.

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Aim

1. To improve parents' knowledge in care-taking of
their cleft lip and palate children;
2. To encourage patients/parents to support
and help each other;
3. To enhance the public's understanding and
acceptance to the patients;
4. To seek for improvement of medical service.

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Services

Service Brief:
- Providing Rehabilitation Services

Service Scope:
Our services include: hospital visits; newborn patients' parent groups; medical and special topic seminars; feeding training; district mutual-help groups; parent-child educational programmes; volunteer service and training; school and community educational activities; counseling service; consultation hotline; providing on sale and lending of specially designed milk bottles and caring items; providing cleft lip and palate baby caretaking information and books for borrowing; publication of information leaflets, newsletters etc.

Service projects include: Nasal Splint Follow-up Service; Resident Speech Therapy Service; District Support Service;「Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment Project」- j

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Location