Hearing impaired child playing with board
Hearing impaired kids playing a board game
The multi-professional team aims to achieve the following goals:
Treatment of children with hearing impairment:
- Auditory rehabilitation for children with various types of hearing impairment.
- Development of listening, communication, language and speech skills.
- Cultivating thinking and establishing learning skills.
- Emotional nurturing, establishing ‘self-strength’, awareness and coping with hearing impairment.
- Developing the social skills of children with hearing impairment.
- Social integration of hearing impaired children in a natural environment and with hearing children.
The integration of parents and family in the care of a child with a hearing impairment:
- Providing comprehensive information on the development of the child with a hearing impairment in various areas.
- Training and development of the parents’ skills in the care and education of the child with a hearing impairment.
- Support, accompaniment and advice for the limited and extended family.
- Active involvement of the parents in the rehabilitation and education process and participation in making decisions related to the child’s treatment plan.
- Guiding the parents in exercising their rights as parents of a child with a hearing impairment and in their contacts with various frameworks in the community.
Integration of children with hearing impairment in the community:
- Integration of children with hearing impairment in educational and social settings in the community.
- Development of services in the community adapted to the population of children with hearing impairment.
- Expanding the community’s awareness of their needs, the manner of their development and integration of children with hearing impairment in the hearing community.
- Training professionals in the community: providing workshops, lectures and information sheets.
- Advocacy and promotion of legislation for the welfare of the hearing impaired child and his family.