SPEECH PATHOLOGY CARE BY TELETHERAPY FOR ORPHANS IN ETHIOPIA

Our mission is to bring accessible assessment and treatment for speech and voice disorders, to children at the Sele Enat Mahiber Orphanage, through telepractice. Children at the Orphanage are not presently diagnosed for communication disorders, and some conditions might go unnoticed, for which early therapy would be extremely beneficial. Dr. Bonaventura, from the Hofstra Speech-Language Hearing Sciences Department, will collaborate with Sele Enat Mahiber, to make speech pathology care available: we will provide assessment and intervention by telematic devices. Collaborating with NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa's Development), we will work to make telepractice a viable solution to receive speech pathology care in Ethiopia.