Brothers Vanya and Kirill underwent speech rehabilitation and began to speak clearly and intelligiblyVerified by Tooba

Brothers Vanya and Kirill underwent speech rehabilitation and began to speak clearly and intelligibly

AiF. Dobroe Serdce

Charitable foundation · Moscow

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Both boys in the Kovalenok family were deaf from birth: genetics. Cochlear implants, fitted first to the eldest of the brothers, Ivan, and then to Kirill, helped the boys to hear. But this was not enough to develop speech and understanding. Even lessons with speech therapists, which the parents immediately signed their sons up for, were not enough. The boys needed a special in-depth course with speech pathologists and surdologists, the only way to speak clearly and correctly. You helped pay for such an important course for the boys.

"My sons have learned a lot. Kirill began to pronounce the "r", "l", "sh" and "s" sounds correctly. His peers began to understand him and new friends appeared in kindergarten. And Vanya got a better understanding of spoken language, distinguished more sounds in words, and began to speak more clearly himself. Both sons have also gained self-confidence, they are not shy to talk. I want to thank everyone who helped us. Thank you for understanding the importance of speech formation in deaf children. They need to socialize and without language skills it is almost impossible! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your help!" - shared the boys' mother Lyudmila.

Ahead of the children there is a home course of lessons to improve their language skills. Thank you for all your help to the Kovalenok family!

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Brothers Vanya and Kirill need speech rehabilitation to cope with the consequences of congenital deafness!

Children hear with the help of cochlear implants. In order to speak clearly and keep up with hearing peers, they need a powerful course of speech rehabilitation at a specialized center.

When the parents learned that genetics was the cause of their eldest son Ivan's deafness, the family was already expecting their second child. When Kirill was born, Mom and Dad knew what to do: Sign up for cochlear implantation.

Now the older Vanya is seven years old and is preparing to go to first grade. The boy has a good vocabulary, but he has trouble expressing his thoughts and forming sentences correctly. His brother Kirill is four. He started to speak in time thanks to an early cochlear implantation. But he swallows the endings of words and mangles sounds. The brothers constantly study at home and also attend classes with a speech therapist. But for a qualitative breakthrough they need a course of speech rehabilitation.

Let's support the boys, so that Vanya will catch up and be able to go to a normal school, and Kirill will speak without mistakes.

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AiF. Dobroe Serdce

Charitable foundation · Moscow

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