The Department of Educational Rehabilitation and Speech and Language Pathology at the Faculty of Education, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, was established in 2024. It comprises distinguished researchers and highly qualified professionals with extensive experience in their respective fields. The department’s scientific, teaching, and clinical activities focus on educational rehabilitation and speech and language pathology. Its interdisciplinary approach also incorporates fields such as otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery, early intervention, education, musicology, and medical law, providing a unique contribution to existing study programmes.
The research and professional activities of the department’s members focus on qualitative and cross-cultural studies, as well as investigations into inclusive education, early childhood intervention, community-based learning, autism spectrum disorders, sensory integration and sensory processing challenges, professional development for teachers and rehabilitation specialists, specific learning difficulties, voice, speech, and swallowing disorders, neurological language and speech impairments, forensic voice and speech analysis, music-based rehabilitation interventions, vocational rehabilitation, disability rights, social rehabilitation and inclusion, special andragogy, and gerontology.
Teaching activities within the department are delivered through undergraduate and graduate programmes in Educational Rehabilitation, as well as undergraduate programmes in Speech and Language Pathology, offered at the Faculty of Education. These programmes are designed to meet the contemporary needs of professionals and recipients of rehabilitation services. They are aligned with current European and global standards, ensuring the development of essential competencies for future educational rehabilitation specialists and speech and language pathologists.