CHAT CENTRE

In pursuit of early diagnosis (the first principle of LSL), the Carel du Toit Centre's Community Outreach Project (COP) was started in 2002 at Nolungile Clinic where babies' hearing was screened as part of their inoculation programme. Throughout the years the dream of early diagnosis evolved under the guidance of Carel du Toit Centre Audiologists until a pilot project was launched for Newborn Hearing Screening in Maternal Obstetric Units (MOU), in partnership with the Children's Hospital Trust and the Western Cape Government: Health. The Child Speech and Hearing Project subsequently rolled out as an effective screening tool in 2014. At the CHAT Centre we are now seeing the results of this initiative and the Carel du Toit Centre's pioneering role in it, as the age of babies entering the programme - diagnosed and fitted as LSL dictates - are increasingly younger... The Carel du Toit Trust is the fundraising arm of the Carel du Toit Centre of which 75% of the children at the Centre are..

Also known as: Carel du Toit, Carel du Toit Trust

Registration numbers: 003-401 (W)

Primary location: South Africa