Rehabilitation services for children and young people
We support the overall functioning and wellbeing of children and young people.
We offer speech therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy for children and young people. Access to the services can be gained through a referral from early childhood education, a child health clinic, student welfare or healthcare, or by booking an appointment independently (only in physiotherapy).
In speech therapy for children, we provide support and guidance related to children’s interaction skills and linguistic development. The aim of speech therapy is to improve your child’s ability to function in everyday life.
Speech therapy can also support linguistic development when there are concerns about the development of all the languages of a multilingual child.
The speech therapist guides your family and other people in your child's immediate surroundings on how to support your child's linguistic development and communication. If necessary, the child or young person is referred to specialised medical care.
In addition to your family, the speech therapist also cooperates with your child's other surrounding environment, such as their place of early childhood education and care or school. If necessary, cooperation will also involve other parties. If you are concerned about your child's or young person’s
speech development or unclear speech,
linguistic development or speech comprehension,
interaction skills,
stuttering,
voice disorder,
pronunciation errors and/or
difficulties in eating
you can bring up the matter, for example, at the maternity and child health clinic, in early childhood education and care or at school.
If you are concerned about your child's development, bring the matter up with the maternity and child health clinic, your child's day care provider or school health care. You can also get advice and guidance from a speech therapist over the telephone (see the contact details below).
call tel. 029 151 3580. Our telephone service is open on weekdays from 7:30 to 11:30.
send a text message at any time to tel. 045 73950053. Include the following information in the text message: the client’s name and date of birth, the date of the appointment you wish to cancel or reschedule, and which appointment the message concerns. If you would like a new appointment, also include the word “new” in the text message.
Occupational therapy can be useful if your child has challenges with performing everyday activities as expected of their age. Everyday problem situations can include eating, getting dressed, moving from one place to another as well as spending time and playing with friends. The child may have difficulties in concentrating and/or performing activities that require fine and gross motor skills.
The occupational therapist will individually assess and observe your child's ability to function in their everyday environment. The assessment is carried out in cooperation with the parents/guardians and the child's place of early childhood education and care or school. Together with your family, the occupational therapist will agree on how occupational therapy will be arranged in your family's everyday life. If necessary, we will also cooperate with other family centre employees during occupational therapy, such as a speech therapist, psychologist, or family worker, in order to support your child's rehabilitation.
If you are concerned about your child's development, bring the matter up with the maternity and child health clinic, your child's day care provider or school health care. You can also get advice and guidance from an occupational therapist over the telephone (see the contact details below).
call tel. 029 151 3580. Our telephone service is open on weekdays from 7:30 to 11:30.
send a text message at any time to tel. 045 73950053. Include the following information in the text message: the client’s name and date of birth, the date of the appointment you wish to cancel or reschedule, and which appointment the message concerns. If you would like a new appointment, also include the word “new” in the text message.
We support the mobility, functional ability and independent daily living of customers of all ages. You will always need an appointment for physiotherapy.
A child or young person can become a client of our wellbeing services county’s rehabilitation services when:
their follow-up treatment in specialised healthcare ends, or
the family moves to our county from another municipality.
We conduct rehabilitation assessments for children and young people under 18 with intellectual disabilities. Based on each assessment, we issue recommendations—for example, for intensive medical rehabilitation arranged by Kela and provided by Kela-approved private therapists.
A rehabilitation planner oversees the entire planning process and offers guidance on anything related to the rehabilitation of a child or young person with an intellectual disability. Contact a rehabilitation planner if you need:
A rehabilitation plan to apply for intensive medical rehabilitation arranged by Kela, or rehabilitation covered by an insurance company
Advice or support regarding rehabilitation services for children and young people with intellectual disabilities