Speech-language Therapy for Vietnam

Communication is the process of being able to understand and to be understood by others.

  A basic human need, as social beings, is to have the ability to communicate with each other.

 

Trinh Foundation Australia Limited is an independent, voluntary, non-profit organisation, established in Australia.

 

The Mission of Trinh Foundation Australia is:

 

¨ To improve the quality of life of the many Vietnamese children and adults who suffer from communication and swallowing disorders.

 

¨ To address this problem by raising the awareness in Vietnam of Speech Language Therapy as a profession.  At present, there is no formal training for Speech Language Therapists in Vietnam.

 

¨ To provide the knowledge, clinical skills and finance to establish formalised educational courses in Speech Language Therapy in Vietnam.  This will allow the Vietnamese people themselves, to successfully manage communication and swallowing disorders such as those arising from head injury, cleft conditions, hearing impairment, autism, developmental delay and head and neck cancer.