Rehabilitation Center

The children brought up in our institution, all at different stages of physical and cognitive development, suffer from many types of health conditions. For the last five years, the number of children in our institution with serious organic and genetic pathologies of CNS has greatly increased.

Therefore, the first priority of our Child’s House is to create and implement rehabilitation programs that allow us to fully or partly compensate for any identified developmental problems, thus preventing serious disabilities.

The concept of early intervention is the basis of the rehabilitation model for Child’s House. The sooner help is provided, the greater effect it will have. The centerpiece of Child’s House is the operations center. It offers a fully functional diagnostics room, exercise therapy room, massage and physical therapy rooms, swimming pool, hydrotherapy room, psychologist, Montessori education, and a sensory integration room.

The integrated program of orphaned child rehabilitation includes two equal parts. The first is medical rehabilitation, which includes diagnostics and medical examination by doctors of different qualifications, medical intervention, therapeutic physical training, massage, neurodevelopment therapy, feeding therapy, physiotherapy and hydrotherapy. The second is social and pedagogical rehabilitation, which includes psychological diagnostics, speech therapy diagnostics and correction, speech pathology correction, play therapy, interactive video training, Montessori education, and sensory integration.

The special care and assistance for orphaned children is only possible thanks to the coordinated efforts of medical and pedagogical workers. We perceive the need for mastering and adapting new directions and methods of work.

In December 2006, the Expert Council of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation selected our institution as winner of the program, “Joy of Childhood: Free Movements.”

Thanks to the grant we received, specialists at our Child’s House completed an education program at the “Dzherelo” rehabilitation center in Lvov.

In order to help children with cerebral spastic infantile paralysis (CSIP), we purchased the necessary rehabilitation equipment. A system of video monitoring was established, which includes video recording of motions at the beginning and at the end of a child’s rehabilitation program.

Implementation of modern rehabilitation methods:

• NDT – Bobath therapy, feeding therapy for young children with CSIP;

• Development in children with Down syndrome (Holland methodology “Motor development in young children with Down syndrome,” by Peter Lauteslager, the program “Small Steps,” McCurry University of Sidney, Australia);

• Montessori therapy for children from 8 months to 4 years who have delayed psychological development.