Rehabilitation Centre for the Hearing Impaired

The Rehabilitationszentrum für Hörgeschädigte (Rehabilitation Centre for the Hearing Impaired) was a specialised rehabilitation institution in Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Established in 1983, it was described as the only facility in the German-speaking region with a dual focus on 'communication' and 'vocational rehabilitation'. It served hearing-impaired adults, including deaf and late-deafened people, as well as users of hearing aids or cochlear implants, helping them reduce the social and occupational consequences of hearing loss. The centre worked according to a holistic therapy concept that took each participant's individual situation into account. Its rehabilitation programmes aimed to improve communicative understanding and practical action skills as far as possible, while enabling participants to assert their interests and rights in their social environment. Concrete goals included gaining self-confidence, actively engaging with living and working environments, making better use of remaining communication abilities, and opening up new communication options. For employed participants, the centre sought to create the conditions for keeping a job, finding a job, achieving vocational advancement and adjustment, reintegrating into working life, and accessing further vocational or rehabilitative measures. After 36 years of operation, the institution announced on its website that it had closed in July 2025. The closure was explicitly not for economic reasons; rather, there was no successor for the facility and the management was retiring. In its farewell message the team thanked all former rehabilitants and the 'Reha family' for the years of joint work on solutions for individual communication situations, and noted that it would continue to read and answer emails for the time being. The centre operated as a private, non-listed institution and was not part of a larger corporate group. Its legacy lies in its specialised, holistic approach to adult hearing rehabilitation in the German-speaking world.

The Rehabilitationszentrum für Hörgeschädigte was founded in 1983 in Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. From its establishment it focused on the rehabilitation of hearing-impaired, deaf and late-deafened adults, and it was described as the only institution in the German-speaking region with the dual emphases of 'communication' and 'vocational rehabilitation'. Over its 36 years of operation, the centre developed a holistic therapy concept that placed the individual situation of each rehabilitant at the centre of the programme. It supported adults with communication difficulties as well as users of hearing aids or cochlear implants, aiming to reduce the social and occupational consequences of hearing loss. The rehabilitation measures pursued goals such as increasing self-confidence, actively engaging with living and working environments, making better use of remaining communication abilities, and opening up new communication options. For employed participants, the centre worked to create the conditions for retaining a job, finding a job, achieving vocational advancement and adjustment, reintegrating into working life, and accessing further vocational or rehabilitative measures. In July 2025 the institution closed. According to its website, the closure had no economic causes; it was simply the consequence of there being no successor for the facility and the management going into retirement. In its farewell message the team thanked all rehabilitants of the past 36 years and the 'Reha family' for the fulfilling time and the joint search for solutions to individual communication situations. The team indicated that it would continue to read and answer emails for the time being.

• 2025

  The centre closes in July 2025 after 36 years, due to lack of a successor and management retirement.

• 1983

  Rehabilitationszentrum für Hörgeschädigte founded in Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein.

The only facility in the German-speaking region with the dual focus of 'communication' and 'vocational rehabilitation', offering a holistic, individualised therapy concept for hearing-impaired adults.

• Holistic rehabilitation programme for hearing-impaired adults

  A therapy concept that takes the individual situation of each rehabilitant into account, aiming to improve communicative understanding and action skills.

• Vocational rehabilitation and reintegration

  Measures to help employed participants retain or find a job, achieve vocational advancement, and reintegrate into working life.

1. 1Reha-Zentrum für Hörgeschädigte in Rendsburghoergeschaedigt.de
2. 2Rehabilitationszentrum für Hörgeschädigte – Wikipediade.wikipedia.org
3. 3Rehabilitationszentrum für Hörgeschädigte – Wikidatawikidata.org