Degree programmes:
- First cycle (BSc): Occupational therapy (in Lithuanian and English): occupational therapy for children with health issues;
- Second cycle (MSc): Health Promotion and Rehabilitation: children’s rehabilitation; Art Therapy (part-time programme) – a joint programme delivered together with Vilnius Academy of Arts Kaunas Faculty; Health Psychology.
- Residency programmes: family doctors, child and adolescent psychiatrists, physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors, paediatricians.
The Department of Children’s Rehabilitation offers the following continued professional development/refresher courses:
- Autism: modern diagnostic and therapeutic methods, 30 hours
- Diagnosis and treatment of speech, language and eating disorders in children, 36 hours
- Botulinum toxin therapy for spasticity and dystonia in children, 36 hours
- Palliative care. Specifics of palliative care for children and adolescents, 36 hours
The topic of the research work at the Department of Children’s Rehabilitation is “Developmental and Functional Disorders in Children”. Head of the research topic Assoc. Prof. Audronė Prasauskienė.
Research fields: Cerebral palsy: epidemiology, comorbidity, early diagnosis; Myelomeningocele: epidemiology, comorbidity, quality of life.
The Department of Children’s Rehabilitation participates in the following international research projects:
- Multi-centre study “Validation of the Paediatric Questionnaire on Family Needs”;
- Study “Assessment of stress experienced by parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorders in Lithuania and the United Kingdom”;
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of integrated rehabilitation for children with spastic cerebral palsy.