OUR TREATMENTS

Offered for children from 0 to 14 years of age:

- rehabilitation and visual, neuro-visual and visual-motory stimulation
- screening and ortoptic follow-ups
- physiotherapy and neuro-psychomotor therapy
- relational psychomotor activity
- speech therapy
- child psychology with a psychoanalytical approach
- multisensorial stimulation and integration
- educational activities and didactics
- music therapy
- hydrotherapy
- infant massage
- psychological support to families

 

Rehabilitation and visual, neuro-visual and visual-motory stimulation
The aim is to enable a visually impaired child to be aware of his/her residual sight and to exploit it as much as possible, compatibly with the pathology, thus favouring all areas of development.

Screening and orthoptic follow-ups
The aim is to integrate functional visual assessment, in order to organise a rehabilitation program bearing in mind the use of all the various sensibilities (accuracy, field of vision, colours, contrasts, etc.) and of the visual functions (fixing, following and exploration).

Physiotherapy and neuro-psychomotor activities
To support and facilitate the acquisition of motor skills and the search for specific and functional strategies for the use of movement in daily life, as well as the acquisition of necessary requirements for orientation and mobility.

Relational psycho-motor activities
Concentrated on the child’s body, through movement and play, the intention is initially to encourage the pleasure of self-discovery and consequently to relate to others.

Speech therapy
To promote speech or alternative modes of communication. Monitored are also functions of feeding, such as chewing and swallowing. Speech therapy is offered also to children with delayed reading and writing abilities due to neuropsychological difficulties.

Child psychology with a psychoanalytical approach
For the cure of psychological problems due to blocks or delay in development caused by the visual impairment. Through play and the words of the therapist, the child has the possibility of representing and re-elaborating his daily reality and/or past events.

Multisensorial stimulation and integration
Under this heading comes a series of different activities, all with the intent to help the child, in pleasant surroundings, to explore and inter-act with the environment.
These proposed activities aim to compensate for the lack of individual experiences in the outside world.

Educational activities and didactics
Through the operator-child relation, which is a fundamental tool of work, an individual education scheme is designed and programmed.
The program can be focused on:

- motivation for play, difficult for a child with severe visual impairment, needing stimuli suitable for his level of development and the visual situation;
- acquisition of personal autonomy;
- learning of the prerequisites of Braille.

Music therapy
Uses sound and music to facilitate communication with the child and to transmit both educational and rehabilitative proposals.
An important part consists in the use of a corporeal resonance model and sonorous dialogue. This method offers the opportunity to perceive sounds by direct contact, for example by lying children on the grand piano or by listening to the harp and other suitable instruments.

Hydrotherapy
The aim is to welcome the child to an environment that boosts his psychological and physical well-being, stimulating his love for water.
Play in the water can be diversified and personalised according to individual difficulties and the specific characteristics of the child’s stage of development.

Infant massage
This is an experience of deep loving care that favours relaxation and bonding between parent and child.

Psychological support to families
We believe that taking care of the child is impossible without an empathic listening to the parents, who often find themselves in a complex and delicate psychological state. To this effect we offer them psychological support through individual meetings and group experiences.