OIC Cambodia’s awareness raising and advocacy activities are designed to increase the demand and commitment to building a local speech therapy profession. We also seek to raise awareness of the needs and rights of people with communication disabilities and promote community inclusion.We do this by:

• Establishing clear key messages for community, professional, and government level and developing print, radio and other media materials;

• Designing awareness-raising and advocacy campaigns (social media, national or community-level) to grow understanding of speech therapy and issues for people who have communication and swallowing difficulties targeting strategic groups in government, NGO and the general population. .

• Monitoring community, professional and government attitudes, knowledge and practices towards people with communication difficulties

• Targeted advocacy for inclusion of people with communication difficulties and access to therapy services with the education, health, and disability sectors.

• Working with Cambodia Society (business, school, organizations) to promote “Day Without Speech”an awareness-raising campaign to increase people’s understanding of communication difficulties and opportunity for Cambodian based fundraising.

Links:See our Speech Therapy week 2019 Campaign (link to FB page)Day without speech in Cambodia (link to ?)