Mikonya Hajnalka

About

He graduated from the College of Teachers of Special Education with a degree in speech therapy, which at the time was only a qualification to work with and treat children.

He smiles a lot, he can be very happy about small things. Empathetic, helpful, has a talent for finding people in families who will be the patient's helpers when the speech therapist's work is finished, and who are accepted by the patient.
Of her two grown-up children, her daughter lives in Turkey and her son in England.

THE GROUNDWORK WAS GOOD

„A Bárczi Gusztáv College of Special Education Teacher Training was then a small institution in its own right, with great teachers and people from different backgrounds. One thing they had in common was that a disabled child is a human being. During the two-year course we dealt with speech therapy and intellectual disabilities. We were grounded in anatomy and psychology, which was an entry point to speech pathology, which really resonated with me.”

SPEECH THERAPY KINDERGARTEN

„I live in Tatabánya, where I started my career in 1984 dyslexia therapy I was commissioned to. Because it is easier to achieve results with children before they start school, I have done dyslexia prevention courses, so I have been able to identify potentially at-risk children and help them with individual therapy. In 1995 a speech and language nursery I have organised. The now Mészöly Gedeon Reformed Primary School and Kindergarten I am also the head and speech and language therapist of a member school within the school.”

THEY HAVE ALSO FOUND A COMMON GROUND WITH THE HEALTH SECTOR

„Since 1987, the Tatabánya Saint Borbala Hospital internal medicine departments stroke-os, including aphasia I was dealing with patients. Later I started my own business. I still run a state-funded speech therapy outpatient clinic in the hospital's neurology department, in addition to inpatient care, linked to the stroke clinic.”

TIME FOR PRIVATE PRACTICE

„At the Budapest Musculoskeletal Private Clinic I mainly treat aphasia patients, but I also occasionally treat young children with speech development difficulties also apply to the order. I treat them in individual therapy, holistically, integrating movement, perception and many other areas. I can achieve results faster than a speech therapist in a kindergarten by talking through the experience with the parent and thus ensuring homework is completed.”

FORENSIC EXPERT

„I became a forensic expert in 2008. In the event of a guardianship application, I may be asked for an opinion on whether, despite his speech problems, he can able-to-decide-ea patient. A dyslexics who, with a proven reading disability, do not have to take the language test to graduate, and from whom I can screen out those who can do so with a modified set of test papers.”

WHAT IT DOES BEST

„There are children who are late in speech, and there are dysphasies, who have no identifiable health reasons for their language problems. One of my main areas of expertise is working with them, including autistic people with communication delays. In adult care aphasia and pronunciation confusion, the for dizartria I specialise in.”

TO HELP, SO THAT THEY CAN HELP

„I also support the development of speech support tools based on infocommunication at the BME Department of Media Informatics (Telematics). With the help of the software, which supports the communication between the patient and his/her environment, the typed text can be made audible, while sentences categorised in the software can be installed for aphasia patients who are unable to write. The improvement of the tool would require as much information as possible about the patients” needs, which are the missing links in the system."