CENTER FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION

The Center for Special Education and Rehabilitation covers an area of 98.24 m² and consists of three rooms: the Sensory Integration Room (sensory room); the Hearing and Speech Habilitation and Rehabilitation Room (speech therapy room); and the Special Education Room. The clinical professional work includes providing support to children and individuals with special needs, as well as counseling for their parents. This involves preventive counseling, diagnostics, treatment (both individual and group), and (re)habilitation in areas such as: parental concerns about child development, behavior or learning, visual impairments, hearing impairments, intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, motor disorders and chronic illnesses, behavioral problems, speech, language, and voice difficulties, reading and writing difficulties, learning difficulties, attention disorders/hyperactivity disorder, emotional difficulties, communication difficulties, and sensory integration difficulties.

The sensory room itself covers an area of 30.25 m². Sensory rooms, where the process of sensory integration (re)habilitation is carried out, have long been an essential part of the services offered by educational and medical institutions, as well as organizations working with children and young people with developmental difficulties. However, in our region, this is not the case. Therefore, the Faculty of Medicine in Foča is the only institution that offers sensory integration services in the municipalities of Foča, Kalinovik, Rudo, Čajniče, Novo Goražde, and Višegrad, which are covered by the Foča branch office of the Health Insurance Fund.

The Center is registered within the healthcare system of the Republic of Srpska, and it is possible to enter into agreements for providing healthcare services in the field of Special Education and Rehabilitation to users of the Republic of Srpska Health Insurance Fund.

The Center for Special Education and Rehabilitation has a separate entrance, is located on the ground floor of the Faculty of Medicine in Foča, and all architectural barriers that might prevent or hinder access for children and individuals with special needs have been removed. The Hearing and Speech Habilitation and Rehabilitation Room and the Sensory Room are accessed from a spacious hallway, where students can observe the work of a speech therapist/special educator and rehabilitator with children through a one-way glass window, without disturbing or distracting the child during the treatment. In this way, the Center also serves as a teaching base for students of the first and second cycles of the Special Education and Rehabilitation study program.