Center for healthy progeny

Center for healthy progeny is an organizational unit which carries out prenatal and prelingual speech pathology detection and diagnostics of problems in the development of hearing, speech and language, behavior and learning in children. Prenatal and prelingual early stimulative audiolinguistic treatments are organized here, alongside with education of parents.

KSAFA system in prenatal period

Risk factors during pregnancy are detected in collaboration with gynecologist in charge. In the period from 28 to 30 gestation week, gynecologist carries out prenatal hearing screening (PHS). PHS is a non-invasive method which represents extended procedure of standard ultrasound scan of a pregnant woman with the influence of a defined sound stimulus from the outside. The state of auditory perception of a prenatal child is evaluated through relative change of pulsatility index ratio (Pir) before and after sound stimulation. PHS is intended for examining complete population in prenatal period. Pir above referent values can indicate certain problems in auditory reactibility of a prenatal child. This population of children is included in prenatal audiolinguistic stimulation which implies continuous theoretical and practical education of parents and conducting control PHSs until birth.

KSAFA system in prelingual period

Otoacoustic emission (OAE) is applied in maternity hospital. Population of newborns who did not pass OAE test in CZP undergo audiolinguistic diagnostics of prelingual development and parallel medical diagnostics in medical centers. Depending on medical and speech therapy diagnostics, population of newborns with detected dysfunctions of auditory system undergo the procedure of early audiolinguistic treatment by KSAFA-m apparatus alongside with continuous education of parents - monitoring of speech-language development, behavior and learning, as well as for the treatment of children at home. Early detection, diagnostics and stimulative treatment in prenatal and prelingual period represents preventive work in the prevention of secondary and tertiary disorder of verbal communication, and behavior and learning in children with far-reaching consequences in the context of working and creative potentials of the society on the whole.