Service portfolio

Care provided by specialised physicians:

Neuropsychological therapy

• Computer-assisted training of attention and visual information processing
• Memory training and action planning

Psychotherapy/counselling

• Behaviour therapy aimed to improve social competence
• Behavioural and systemic-based psychotherapy
• Person-centred therapy/talk psychotherapy or systemic support in coping with the illness (coping strategies)
• Crisis intervention

Rehabilitative nursing

• Intensive medical nursing
• Encouragement/motivation of patient to become independent in self-care
• Achievement of specific nursing goals in everyday nursing care situations

Social-pedagogical care

• Training of social skills and in performing activities of daily living (ADLs)
• Care of patients with behavioural problems
• Group activities aimed to help patients learn how to cope with illness
• Leisure time activities and supervision
• Animal-assisted educational therapy

Speech and language therapy

• Therapies for language, motor speech and swallowing disorders
• Treatment of language development disorders
• Facio-oral therapy and management of feeding and swallowing difficulties and disorders (dysphagias)
• Provision of and instruction in using communication-support devices
• Intensive training for aphasic patients, e.g. Constraint-Induced Aphasia Therapy (CIAT) and Intensive Speech Training for Aphasic Children (ISKA)

Ergotherapy (occupational therapy)

• Functional motor activity training for pareses, movement and co-ordination disorders
• Assistance with and training in activities of daily living (ADLs)
• Sensory integration (SI) treatment to promote development of visual/perceptual skills
• Neuropsychologically-oriented perception training
• Handwriting training
• Group-based activities to help patients learn and practice everyday activities

Music therapy (for the treatment of:)

• Motivation and awareness dysfunctions
• Sensorimotor disorders
• Pain and muscular tension
• Perceptual disorders
• Cognitive disorders
• Psychosocial difficulties

Art workshop

• Activities to increase motivation, improve coping with illness and promote creative and artistic talents
• ”Closlieu” painting atelier for accompanied painting
• Art projects (also in public settings)

Physiotherapie

• Functional movement exercises for the treatment of pareses and altered muscle tone
• Diagnostic testing and treatment of motor development disorders
• Locomotive therapy and training with the mechanical gait-trainer ”LokoHelp”
• Serial casting to reduce muscle tone
• Provision and assistance in use of ortheses, prostheses and adaptive devices/equipment
• Functional therapy for (accompanying) orthopaedic disorders
• Repetitive, task-oriented training of hand and arm movement functions, also in combination with ”forced-use” conditions
• Psychomotor training/Wheelchair training/Galileo vibration therapy

Additional therapies

• Massages/Lymph drainage/Therapeutic baths
• Foot reflex zone therapy/Electrotherapy/Inhalation therapy