Referrals of students to the counseling commission can be initiated by a:

• Parent/guardian
• Teacher, speech therapist or psychologist with the consent of the parent/guardian

The following documents are to be submittedto the counseling commission:

• Parent’s application
• The academic council’s decision on referring students to the counseling commission
• Copy of birth certificate
• Observational record 
• Characterization
• Medical record
• Extract from academic record
• Report card including grades received during the quarter
• Letter from private physician, in the event that it has been proposed to transfer the student to an inpatient care school for children with severe somatic illnesses
• Letter from neurologist, in the event that it has been proposed to transfer the student to a physically handicapped class
• Diagnosis from a speech therapist together with a characterization of the child’s speech, if the pupil has undergone speech therapy
• Letter from ear doctor along with an audiogram, if it has been proposed that the child be transferred to a hearing impaired class
• Letter from an eye doctor, if it has been proposed that the child be transferred to a visually impaired class
• Letter from a psychiatrist, if it is proposed that the pupil be assigned an academic program or be transferred to a leveling group, or a class for children with physical, speech, sensory or mental handicaps or psychic disorders.

Commission contact persons:

Mari Tammur 

Tel: 605 6041              

• Children with specific developmental disorders (learning and motor disabilities)
• Children with hyperkinetic tendencies
• Children with deviant behavior

• Students with minor, moderate or major or severe mental handicaps
• Students with multiple disabilities