Two teachers for the deaf from Kyrgyzstan enjoyed internship at the rehabilitation centre, CIC Rhein Main, Germany

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Publikation in EURO-CIU June 2022

Im Rahmen des Förderprogramms „Cochlea-Implantation und langfristige Unterstützung für gehörlose Kinder“, das die Lehnhardt-Stiftung von der GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) erhalten hat, kamen Anastasia Naimanova und Larisa Kovaleva zu einem Studienaufenthalt in eines der größten Rehabilitationszentren Deutschlands. Hier sind ihre Eindrücke:

Yvonne Seebens, Gunther Haschker and the whole team welcomed us warmly and organized intensive and highly interesting 12 days of training.

We were introduced to the structure of CIC and received valuable information about documentation management, which is the basis of the centre’s interaction with patients and parents and also with other centres and clinics.

Individual and / or group sessions are planned for every child including ENT doctors´ examination, hearing tests, technical inspection and fitting of speech processors, as well as consultation for parents.  We attended individual and group classes, music lessons and lessons for the development of psychomotoric skills.

In order to improve our pedagogical skills and deepen our theoretical knowledge, gained during the first week, we were offered to conduct classes with a boy from a Russian-speaking family, followed by a video analysis which was very beneficial.

Working with parents is the focus of CIC.  Questionnaires are filled in, to reflect the dynamics of the child´s development and the parents´ expectations.  They come several times a year and benefit from communicating with each other, exchanging experience and thus supporting each other.

We have familiarized ourselves with the Marte Meo method which is focused on strengthening the child-parent relations and developing parental skills within the framework of correctional assistance to the child.  Marte Meo means “with my own power”.  The founder of this method – Maria Aarts – is convinced that any parent has a significant positive potential for the development of their child, but not everyone can analyse their interaction with the child from outside.  Videos allow one to analyse the interaction between adult and child, identify positive aspects and improve them.

We learnt about the concepts of Natural-Oral Method, Auditory Verbal Therapy, and “Theory of Mind”.  We met with representatives of the parents´ association “Little Listeners” and we were inspired by their vital activity and mutual assistance.

We visited a school for hard of hearing children and learnt about “Early Support Programmes”

Representatives of the companies Cochlear and MED-EL presented to us their new products and their benefits for CI recipients.  They wanted to hear from us which difficulties CI recipients are facing in our country and whether a governmental CI program will be established in Kyrgyzstan in the near future.

Full trust and cooperation are the basis of all work done in CIC.  All members are open to dialogue and ready to discuss various methods to improve the quality of education for deaf and hard of hearing children.

The main achievement and success of our trip is the acquisition and expansion of our theoretical base and pedagogical self-confidence.

The message we take home with us is the necessity to:

  • establish a system of methodical work
  • to train specialists who are willing to engage in self-education, self-development and to improve their professional competence and culture
  • to create an atmosphere of cooperation and mutual support

We are determined to work on this and make it happen!

Anastasia Naimanova und Larisa Kovaleva

Shipment of the first part of humanitarian medical aid under the GIZ project ‘Hotline’

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In early February 2022, the Lehnhardt Foundation and the AURORA Hearing Rehabilitation Center began a project with the support of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) "Implementation of Newborn Hearing Screening in 4 clinics & professional parents counseling via Hotline" ID 2109011. But everything changed after February 24 . Given the urgent need for medicines and hospital supplies, GIZ increased the budget of the project and it became possible within the framework of this project to order the necessary medicines and other hospital supplies. The first transport has already arrived at the Vasylkivska Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Hospital.

A big thank you goes to GIZ for the financial support, members of the Lehnhardt Foundation Dr. Monika Lehnhardt-Goriany, Peter Zoth, Prof. Tino Just and KMG Clinic in Güstrow for organizing and ordering medicines, the Polish transport company from Marcin Markiewicz for delivering humanitarian aid to Ukraine and finally to all the staff of the AURORA Medical Center who joined the organization of this project.

 

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Online-Treffen donnerstags „Fragen und Antworten für Familien mit hörgeschädigten Kindern“

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Die Lehnhardt Stiftung lädt jeden Donnerstag um 17.00 Uhr zu Zoom Meetings ein, um Fragen von Familien zu beantworten, die nach dem 24. Februar 2022 aus der Ukraine nach Deutschland gekommen sind.
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Техническая поддержка детей с нарушением слуха из Украины – RU

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Вы найдете информацию:
– тех.поддержка РП фирм Кохлеар, Медель
– тех.поддержка по СА

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Если у Вас возникли вопросы по поводу записи, про школу и детский сад, занятия, реабилитацию, пишите, пожалуйста
Liubov Wolowik  liubov.wolowik@lehnhardt-academy.net
Whatsapp+49 157 765 38 203

QUESWHIC & HICEN

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Die Lehnhardt Akademie hat mit Partnern wie der Pädagogischen Hochschule Heidelberg, Prag, Warschau und Pamplona und mit finanzieller Unterstützung durch die EU (im Rahmen des Comenius Programms), das QUESWHIC Lehrprogramm durchgeführt. Die Traininsmodule sind im Internet zugänglich und auch als Buch publiziert (2005).

Ein Folgeprojekt unter dem Titel HICEN (HICEN – Hearing Impaired Children and their Educational Needs) – Erstellung von Trainingsmaterial für Therapeuten, die mit hochgradig schwerhörigen und tauben Kindern im Vorschulalter arbeiten, ist derzeit mit Partnern aus UK, Belgien, Spanien und Deutschland in Vorbereitung.
Die Lektionen wurden von nahmhaften Autoren unter der Koordination und Mitwirkung von Prof. Gottfried Diller, em. Dekan der Pädagogischen Fakultät, Universität Heidelberg und Leiter des Cochlear Implant Centrum Rhein-Main (CIC Friedberg ) erstellt. Die Lektionen wurden in Deutsch, Englisch und Spanisch erstellt. Die Russische Version erschien 2012.

«Кирпичики» для самостоятельной речи Владимира

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Я захожу в группу и вижу: в  дверях стоит незнакомый ребенок, держа за руки родителей. У него слуховой  имплант, и я понимаю, что это мой новый воспитанник. С интересом,  застенчиво улыбаясь, Вова посмотрел на меня и пошел в группу, где играли  слышащие малыши. Так легко начался первый день в массовом  детском саду мальчика, отличающегося от сверстников с первого дня своей жизни.

 Вове Кривобокову 4.5 года. У него кохлеарный  имплант с одной стороны, признаки ДЦП, дыхательная стома, очки.  За короткую жизнь мальчику пришлось перенести множество операций, обеспечивающих его жизнеспособность.  Какие это  испытания, и с каким риском для жизни ребенка они были сопряжены, могут сказать только его родители.  А с ними Вове точно повезло! Они не опустили руки, когда в семье родился ребенок с множественными пороками развития, а две старшие Вовины сестры помогают им и играют с ним. Не унывая, с верой в лучшее, делают все возможное на сегодняшний день. И вот уже 2  месяца  такой особый ребенок  ходит в самый обычный  московский детский сад вместе со  слышащими сверстниками.

Более 40 лет наше образовательное учреждение оказывает коррекционную  помощь детям с нарушенным слухом. Учителя-дефектологи дошкольного и школьного отделений осуществляют свою деятельность по авторской  методике кандидата педагогических наук Э.И. Леонгард.  Ежедневно в течение  2-3 часов  Вова находится среди  слышащих сверстников.  Каждый день у этого ребенка есть возможность получать коррекционную помощь. Через некоторое время, наблюдая за Вовой,  я поймала себя на мысли, что перестала обращать внимание на все ограничения в развитии этого ребенка, когда он среди детей. Так же  рисует, играет, бегает на физкультуре, движется под музыку, лишь в тишине свистящий звук дыхательной трубки привлекает внимание. Когда он с ребятами, даже забываешь, что Вова не может слышать, как  здоровые  сверстники.

Врачи клиники  АМЕОС в  Германии, при поддержке немецкого фонда Ленхардт, организации “Сердце детям” и московского фонда “Помоги.орг”, подарили этому ребенку  отсутствующую у него слуховую функцию, которая стала физиологической основой слушания и слышания, обеспечила мальчику возможность слышать. В августе 2020 года  Вове была произведена операция: кохлеарная имплантация с правой стороны. Человек после подобной операции слышит звуковой раздражитель, но слышать речь, а значит понимать ее,  не может научиться самостоятельно.   Это долгий и непростой путь. Этому надо  учить специально.

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Intensive rehabilitation training and counselling in Bishkek

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Publikation in EURO-CIU Dezember 2021
Intensive rehabilitation training and counselling in Bishkek

It was not my first trip to Bishkek, but it was very important for me to meet all the specialists, teachers, parents and children with whom I had regular Online contact over the last couple of months.  It was three days of hard work, but very rewarding.

For the first time I held a seminar for specialists from schools for the deaf and hearing impaired children, a target group of professionals who had practically no knowledge about cochlear implants.

Using the example of our centre in St. Petersburg, I demonstrated to these specialists that it is possible to change the negative impact of a severe hearing loss by providing powerful hearing aids and / or cochlear implants accompanied by adequate professional rehabilitation.  We discussed various options on how to expand their activities and thus facilitate inclusion of deaf children into the world of hearing.  Unfortunately, the majority of the seminar participants were not really interested in the topic of the development of auditory perception and preferred to get practical tips on the development of speech.  They did not realize that these advanced technologies also rely on auditory perception in our work.  However, some of the teachers were inspired by the opportunity to change something in their work.

I also had a very individual consultation for Marzhana, a little 6-year-old girl.  She has been wearing hearing aids for two months and she can understand and express some words in Kyrgyz.  However, the phonemic test showed insufficient discrimination of high-frequency speech sounds.  The hearing aids are classified as suitable for severe hearing loss, and we considered the possibility of suboptimal fitting.  However, there is high risk that her hearing might deteriorate.   The girl is very inquisitive, active, keeps her attention well and tries to repeat everything what the teacher does / says.  She did an excellent job with the logic task (to decompose a series of pictures of 3 and of 4).  She understood the “plot”, repeated it after the teacher, and having listened to the whole story, she understood and showed pictures fitting for some phrases.  I recommended cochlear implantation as we can expect the dynamics to be much faster, the development of speech to be more successful.

In the National Center of Maternity and Childhood Care – partner in two projects “Clinic partnership” with the GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) and where cochlear implantation surgeries took place over the last couple of years – the German Embassy funded the equipment of two rooms with the necessary tools and furniture.  During my stay in Bishkek, Torge Matthiesen from the German Embassy came to open the rooms together with the ENT doctors of the clinic and the president of the International Association of Hearing Rehabilitation Specialists Anastasia Naimanova.  My “contribution” was two suitcases of manuals, books, games and toys which I brought from St. Petersburg (sponsored by the German Embassy).

We conducted nine diagnostic sessions with children from a second group of children, who receive intensive training.  We made video recordings of these lessons to help analysing the pedagogical techniques and methods.  Three local specialists (the teachers of the intensive course) – Anastasia Naimanova (teacher for deaf children), Irina Karamurzina (speech therapist) and Veronika Belozerova (speech therapist) – attended these sessions.

We also organized fittings of speech processors for three children (Marsel, Ayar, Dayan) together with Dr. Shirin Zhumabaeva and Luisa Mirgijazova.

One day later I held a seminar for specialists “What makes a teacher a professional: the secrets of diagnostics and the possibilities of universal didactic games” (five lesson hours).  This seminar was held simultaneously offline and in zoom.  It was very well attended (40 participants) and many teachers gave very positive feedback.

We had excellent discussions with Dmitrij and Svetlana Zaiyka (experts in the field of technical support and rehabilitation from Kiev) and teachers of the Parents Association “Hear Together”.

With the team of NCMCC we agreed to meet online regularly to discuss various documents (course plans, extracts, recommendations for parents and specialists) in detail.

Finally, I was very pleased to meet “my little students” Bata, Chingiz and Havsanur – whom I have known for quite some time and whom I taught locally and Online during the last four years, since 2017.  I was delighted by their positive development:  they speak fluently and understand speech very well.  Now they are attending regular schools.

This trip was very intensive and required a lot of energy.  But it was more than worthwhile; we have achieved a lot with the local team, and I am determined to come back in the not-too-distant future.  I would like to add that this trip was fully supported by the Lehnhardt Foundation, and I would like to thank Monika Lehnhardt-Goriany for this.

Marina Gureva
Surdotherapist in City Children’s Surdological Center in St.-Petersburg, Russia
Member of Lehnhardt Foundation