OIC Australia is supporting OIC Cambodia to develop speech therapy resources that are adapted to this culture, language, and society. This includes running research and pilot projects for evaluating appropriate ways of delivering speech therapy in Cambodia.

The objective is to produce suitable Khmer language resources, appropriate for the Cambodian context, for use in speech therapy clinical, university, and community settings.

OIC Cambodia does this by:

• Designing and undertaking pilot projects using speech therapy in different settings

• Prevalence studies, mapping of needs and services, and documenting experience of people with communication difficulties

• Research into the scope of practice, and the potential of para-professionals (non-university trained) speech therapists

• Including speech therapy data collection within broader Cambodian research conducted by government and NGOs

• Partnerships with the relevant tertiary institutions to source the expertise and rigor for quality research