Zastavna O. Physical rehabilitation of hearing impaired children of preschool age after cochlear implantation.

This dissertation focuses on the development, scientific substantiation and testing of the well-rounded program of physical rehabilitation for hearing impaired preschool children age after cochlear implantation during postoperative period. It has been determined that hearing impaired preschool children age after cochlear implantation yield to their peers with normal hearing in terms of physical and psychomotor development, indices of functioning of cardio-respiratory system, parameters of physical fitness. By applying the author's program of physical rehabilitation, which includes home habilitation, kinesitherapy (using morning hygienic gymnastics, children's yoga, exercise with fitness ball, breathing and articulation exercises), massage (general, logopaedic), training (air, sun, water), it has been possible to reliably improve most of the analyzed parameters (parameters of physical and psychomotor development, functioning of cardio-respiratory system, physical fitness) hearing impaired children.