Through gradual and progressive proposals, each student of Ephpheta Institute is helped to relate to others, to communicate adequately and to participate positively in social life.

The method used by speech therapists, by teachers and educators of Ephpheta is defined as "oral" type. Since early years, language is therapeutically taught to the child with a sound training, using the existing residual hearing, a lip reading and an imitation of the word articulation. The child is then accompanied in the acquisition of more complex language skills, including the ability to understand the grammatical structure and syntax of the sentence and its meaning.

In the Ephpheta Paul VI Institute the following services can be found:

• Outpatient service for early intervention
• Preschool
• Compulsory schooling
• Social welfare service
• Workshops of individual speech therapy
• Housing
• Training sessions for parents