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By suitable counselling a disability may be understood better and mitigated with accompanying measures.Multi-disciplinary professionalism and inter-disciplinary cooperation make our services even more efficient. |
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What we aim to achieve…Medical and therapeutical intervention is to give each of our patients the chance to develop optimally and suitably for his or her givens. The goal is his/her partaking as actively as possible in community and social life. Counselling and therapy go hand in hand with information and instructions, they also address the patient's social environment so as to influence the conditions of life of the disabled people with lasting effect. We count on the constructive interaction between the patient, doctor, therapist and the
environment. For whom?The opportunities we offer are for children and young grown-ups with different
disorders in their motor and/or mental development, whether innate or acquired, sensual or
multiple disabilities, learning problems and partial performance disturbances, injuries
such as cranial-cerebral traumata and similar, speech and language impediments. Our focal
point is the care of patients having a cerebral paresis. Our competencePhysio-therapy: Initiating of motion and promotion of movement, as well as upkeep of motion in the case of different impediments of the locomotor system, by all-body promotion in consideration of the manifold channels of perception, the goals being: - the largest possible independence Facilities/opportunities:
Hippo-therapy: As a supplement to physio-therapy, the rehabilitation centre in Graz and the
therapeutic centre in Bruck provides hippo-therapeutic lessons - physio-therapy on
horses! Ergo-therapy: Ergo-therapy has as its goal the development and improved ability of action, to provide the child with the greatest possible independence and maximum quality of every-day life. Improvement of the senso-motor abilities, mobility, concentration, balance, grapho-motorics, perception. Promoting cognitive abilities: concentration, memory, speech, orientation. Development of social and emotional abilities (self-confidence, creativity, own initiative, communication, frustration tolerance, understanding rules). The development stage of the child in consideration of his/her physical, psychic and social well-being is the basis of the therapy structure. In the pediatric section it is all about initiating the self-determined discovery and action in light of playful mobility opportunities, handicraft activities and use of specially adapted playthings. We also assist children in coping with every-day activities, (dressing and undressing,
washing, handling money, time and local orientation, etc.) A new focus is Augmentative Alternative Communication, AAC, partly drawing on
electronic media. Speech-therapy: The therapies are structured according to the physiological development of language, with consideration of the capabilities and the child's present development state in the light of his/her specific disabilities. Following requirement-oriented diagnosis, an individual, multi-modal communication system is developed. Therapies are also influenced by the works of Castillo-Morales, Bobath, Padoveen, Van Riper, Bliss, Jean Ayros and Affolter. A new focus is the Augmentative Alternative Communication, AAC, partly drawing on
electronic media. Music therapy: Initiation of relationship and help in the personal development by application of
specially organized artistic activities forming part of the treatment, education and
rehabilitation for people with a motor, sensor, or emotional impediment. Psychology: Information - diagnostics - counselling - therapy for the following issues:
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