In the generally accepted model of the diagnosis and rehabilitation in small deaf children, the main concern of various specialists is focused on the development of speech and hearing abilities. In our approach, we propose another perspective, in which the deaf child is not seen as an object of the speech education and where the specialists concentrate on the child as a whole--with his various emotional needs and psychical traits. According to that way of seeing the deaf child, we organized the diagnostic-rehabilitation courses for small deaf children and their parents (9 children aged 1.8-5 years). We found these courses as a method opening new perspectives in the process of the diagnosis and rehabilitation in the small deaf children.
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