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Kira is making speech progress

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After hearing rehabilitation, three‑year‑old Kira doesn’t stop talking for a single second. “She’s talking up a storm!” her mother can’t get enough of it. The child’s active vocabulary now includes not only new words but also simple phrases. Thank you for helping Kira catch up with her peers in speech development.

Kira is coping with grade 4 hearing loss with the help of cochlear implants. They were implanted a year ago, and since then, sessions with speech therapists and audiologists have never stopped.

"I am immensely grateful to everyone who supported us and gave us the opportunity to undergo this rehabilitation," says Mom. — In two weeks, Kira has made much better progress in speech than in months of training at home.

The girl began to understand simple everyday requests and the speech addressed to her much better. She has learned to distinguish between primary colors, mastered counting, and now she can form short sentences: "Mom is asleep," "Masha, let's go."

Kindergarten teachers also noted the progress. The little one constantly repeats the words she hears and actively talks to her peers. Tubers, with your help, Kira has made a big and rapid progress in her speech development. Thank you for your responsiveness!

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Kira has hearing loss: auditory-speech rehabilitation is needed to start speech

Three–year-old Kira has grade 4 hearing loss. Cochlear implants help to cope with deafness. But in order to start speaking, a child needs hearing and speech rehabilitation in a specialized center.

Kira's mother began to suspect hearing problems at an early age. The daughter did not hum like the older siblings, did not always pay attention to the noise and rarely responded to the name. But the doctors did not share these concerns. It was only by the age of two that it became obvious that the girl could not hear.

Development has begun with cochlear implants (the first one was installed on the right ear a year ago, and the left one was connected quite recently). Kira began to understand what was being said to her, began to pronounce the first sounds, and then the words. There are several dozen words in her active vocabulary right now. Kira works with a speech therapist and a sign language therapist twice a week, and with her mother every day. But it's still not enough, the vocabulary is growing very slowly, and there are difficulties with pronunciation. You need a powerful speech starter to start speaking confidently and clearly. Let's help Kira get to the specialists who work with children after cochlear implantation.