ABOUT AFASIC CYMRU

Afasic CymruAfasic is the UK charity established in 1968 as a parent led organisation representing children and young people with speech, language and communication impairments and working for their inclusion in society and supporting their parents and carers. Afasic Cymru is not a service provider; therefore we can offer balanced impartial information.

Afasic Cymru was launched in 2002 and thanks to some funding from the Welsh Assembly Government; we are working from two regions. Jeannette Carr, Director is based in Cardiff together with our part time administrator, Lorraine Mulvaney and Yvonne Brookes the Development Officer who is based in North Wales.

We have also recently received funding from the Waterloo Foundation – this funding is specifically for us to provide training to parents and carers and provide them with information so that they are better equipped to support their children. Whilst we are actively seeking other funding sources to continue our work within Wales we have organised a few fundraising events across Wales – all of which need your support. We have the Great Cake Bake, the annual sponsored silence to take place in October, a walk up Snowden, the Afasic Coastline Challenge, Golf Day and many more. Many of these events can be advertised using the posters designed so please feel free to download from the “News” page of our website and circulate to all of your family, friends and colleagues.

We are also running two competitions for children and young people with a speech, language and communication difficulties to enter.

We want to produce a bilingual Christmas card to sell to parents/carers & supporters of our organisation – therefore we are holding a Christmas card design competition so please get your coloured pens and pencils out and send all your designs to our Cardiff office where our panel of judges are waiting to hear from you. All entrants will receive a certificate and the winner will receive a £20 voucher PLUS their name on all the Christmas cards printed. CLOSING DATE is 30th September 2010 to allow time for printing and production.

Again for the artists out there we are offering a £20 HMV voucher for the winning design of a logo for a new online radio station called ‘Fusion Net Radio’. One of our young people, Damian Quinn, is designing a website for them and they have agreed to hold a competition for young people to design a logo for the station, with the winning design to then be professionally produced by a graphic design company and adopted by the station.

And finally, we are once again inviting nominations for the Afasic Cymru Youth Award – nominations can be submitted by a parent/carer, teacher, S and L Therapist indeed anyone who knows of a child or young person who has worked hard to achieve despite their SLCN. Nomination forms and guidelines can be downloaded here and submitted to us by October 31st 2010. See last year’s winners in the News Section of this website.