Units

The specialised units that support every child treated at the Smile Train Cleft Centre.

Paediatric and Counselling Unit Speech Therapy Unit
Paediatric assessment Consultation Child patient Team examination

Paediatric and Counselling Unit

Paediatric and counselling unit of Smile Train Cleft Centre is manned by a consultant paediatrician with a special training in caring for children with cleft lip and palate.

Paediatric care provided to the patients registered for cleft lip and palate treatment include:

  • Complete examination, assessment of feeding, correcting nutritional errors, monitoring growth and development.
  • Planning treatment for other congenital anomalies, monitoring general health, in collaboration with the paediatricians of the referring centres and consultants of the other relevant specialities such as Paediatric cardiologist, ENT surgeon, speech and language therapist, and the midwives.
  • Providing pre-operative and post operative care of the children undergoing surgery.
  • Providing health education.
  • Counselling and psychological support for parents and children when they are grown.
  • Organizing events with the parental supporting group "Sanyatha."
  • Carrying out training programmes on different aspects of care for health care providers.
Paediatric assessment Consultation Child patient Family with therapist

Speech Therapy Unit

Speech therapy unit at Smile Train Centre Peradeniya provides speech therapy for children born with cleft lip and palate free of charge.

Like all other children, children born with cleft lip and palate acquire speech from the very first day of life, but the cleft lip and palate can affect their normal development of speech. They may present with different speech abnormalities late in their life.

Early surgical intervention is the key to improve child's speech mechanism. As the child grows up, continuous speech therapy should be provided to improve child's communication.