Rehabilitation

Speech therapy is a form of therapy and rehabilitation, which aims to help children and adults with language or speech disturbances. Therapy is used to remove, mitigate or prevent language and speech disorders as well…

The public sector (state and municipal authorities as well as Kela, Finland’s social insurance institution) pays for rehabilitation, essential assisitive devices, requisite support functions in daycare and at school, as well as any needed orientation training programs and interpretation services for…

As therapy commences, a speech therapist is given all the necessary info about the child. These include the language or languages the family uses, as well as the child’s linguistic level and how well he…

The first and from a rehabilitative point of view most important contact for a D/HH child’s family is the local hearing centre or equivalent unit. The hearing rehabilitation of small children is usually concentrated at university hospitals, but some central…

A cochlear implant (CI) is a hearing aid that requires surgery. It’s meant for people who are deaf or suffer from severe and very severe hearing loss, and for whom the amplification provided by a…

The purpose of hearing rehabilitation is make sure that the child’s speech and language development are as normal as possible. Nowadays serious hearing loss is usually discovered during a newborn hearing screening. A final diagnosis requires a…