Senate debates
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
National Cleft Awareness Week
3:44 pm
Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
I move:
- That the Senate—
- (a)
- notes that:
- (i)
- the week beginning 9 November 2008 Is National Cleft Awareness Week,
- (ii)
- one in every 700 babies born in Australia is born with a cleft, either a cleft lip or a cleft palate or a combination of both,
- (iii)
- children with a cleft will usually require a range of dental, orthodontic, speech pathology and surgical therapies throughout their lives to support their full participation in society,
- (iv)
- in some states, there are waiting lists of between 6 months and 2 years for speech pathology services and children face ongoing educational challenges unless their speech and language needs are addressed, and
- (v)
- the shortfall in public speech pathology services has forced families to seek services in the private sector which many families are unable to afford; and
- (b)
- calls on the Government to:
- (i)
- provide better support to publicly-funded speech pathology services, and
- (ii)
- investigate the costs of including speech pathology services within the existing Medicare Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Scheme.
Question agreed to.
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