Elina Uusi-Hakala

Suomeksi

Elina works with adults, young people and school-age children. In addition to adult neurological speech therapy, she offers guidance and therapy for persistent speech sound errors, fluency difficulties, and works with selective mutism. Elina graduated as a speech and language therapist from the University of Turku in 2013. In her Master’s Thesis, she studied the effectiveness of intensive rehabilitation for chronic dysarthria.

Alongside her client work, Elina is Puheklinikka’s data protection officer and handles Puheklinikka’s general matters.

Further training:

Adult neurological speech therapy: language-cognitive communication difficulties, cerebrovascular disorders, brain injuries, progressive neurological diseases, swallowing difficulties, neurogenic voice and fluency difficulties, voice therapy.

Diagnosis and rehabilitation of fluency difficulties, selective mutism and reading and writing difficulties

Selected training and qualifications:

Oral Placement Therapy (OPT™) for Traumatic Brain Injury, Oral Placement Therapy (OPT™) Assessment and Program Plan development, A Three Part Treatment Plan for Oral Placement Therapy (OPT™ I), Comprehensive Deep Pharyngeal Neuromuscular Stimulation (DPNS), Diagnosing and Treating Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders, Myofunctional Research Co (MRC), Trauma-informed speech therapy, Selective eating, Goal Attainment Scale (GAS), International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), Sosiaali- ja terveysalan tietoturvakortti (information security card for social and health care), Data protection and information security in health care

Client groups:

• School-age children, young people, working-age adults and older adults
  • Individual and group rehabilitation
  • Subacute and maintenance rehabilitation
  • Speech therapy assessment periods
  • Guidance-focused speech therapy periods
• Cerebrovascular disorders: aphasia, dysarthria, dysphagia (swallowing difficulty), language-cognitive difficulties
• Progressive neurological diseases: Parkinson’s disease, ALS, MS, memory disorders
• Traumatic brain injuries and their after-effects
• Voice disorders, voice care
• Fluency disorders
• Selective mutism
• Speech sound errors and developmental language disorders (school-age children, young people and children)
• Assessment and rehabilitation of reading and writing difficulties (dyslexia)

Working languages: Finnish, English.

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