Today I was looking over the power point presentation that the Yellow House team are going to deliver at the Fifth East African Conference on Communication Disorders in Mombasa in early September, and I realised JUST HOW MUCH WORK Yellow House and those affiliated with the organization are doing! What struck me also was just how far we have come in the past couple of years. Our current programs cost a lot less, and do a lot more than the Mombasa Children's Therapy Clinic (which we started but are no longer affiliated with) was able to manage and I think this is because so much of the current work is fully integrated into existing structures (eg. the hospital, the EARC system). While a center based model is appealing, and gives you lots of control, it doesn't allow non SLP professionals to SEE our work in action and begin to learn/understand what speech communication therapists can bring to the table as a part of a multi-disciplinary team.
We have much to do on this end, in the United States particularly in terms of raising funds for the 2014 programming, but taking stock, I feel so amazed at what David Rochus and Rachael Gibson have achieved in the past few months.
We have much to do on this end, in the United States particularly in terms of raising funds for the 2014 programming, but taking stock, I feel so amazed at what David Rochus and Rachael Gibson have achieved in the past few months.
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