Vestn Otorinolaringol. 1991 Jul-Aug; (4): 18-22.

[Organization of therapy and rehabilitation of patients with sensorineural hearing disorders in the psychotherapeutic neurological center]

Rakhmanov VM.

In 1979, a psychotherapeutic surdoneurological center consisting of an outpatient department and a 60-bed hospital was opened in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. The responsibility of the center is to render social and rehabilitation aid to patients with hearing loss of sensorineural origin. Rehabilitation procedures include non-drug therapy, psychotherapy, physical therapy, acupuncture and reflexotherapy, surdopedagogical lessons in the alert and hypnotic state, special talks to exclude discomfortable sensations, both of psychological and hearing type, related to the use of hearing aids. These rehabilitation procedures yielded the best results in pedagogically trained children who, at the age of 9 years, went to normal schools or schools for children with hearing loss of I-IV degree.