Every day, three babies are born with a cleft in the UK. CLAPA is here to ensure no one affected by cleft lip and palate goes through it alone, offering reassurance to worried parents and carers, support for young people facing treatment decisions, and guidance for adults navigating cleft care
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Situation
Imagine going for your 20-week scan, excited to learn your baby's sex, only to be shocked by a diagnosis of cleft. It can take days or even longer to see a specialist, and at this crucial time, anxiety and endless doom-scrolling can severely impact mental health. For cleft patients and their families, coping with this widely misunderstood condition throughout their lives with all of the varied issues it presents can be extremely difficult without timely, accurate and accessible information.
Solution
CLAPA’s accredited information on cleft lip and palate, guided by the cleft community and healthcare professionals, addresses both emotional needs and medical facts. We take a long and complicated treatment pathway and create accessible information grounded in the experiences and needs of the people we support every day. This section of our website already gets 20k visitors each month, showing its profound value to the UK cleft community.
