Welcome to the website of Voluntas npo

Voluntas, a non-profit organization, since 1984  originated from a self-help group, is as from 1989 active as a professional center for families and people with a handicap. Voluntas is a member of the Pluralistic Platform for care for handicapped People.

SeMoCo centre stands for Sensory Motor Cognitive interdisciplinairy rehabilitation for families and persons with a handicap.

In February 2009 vzw Voluntas will start a new SeMoCo division in Montpellier France!
By doing so we respond to the request of many families from the South of France, Switzerland, Austria, the North of Spain, the South of Germany…

The address will be :
Voluntas npo Centre SeMoCo
103 Rue de l'Estragon
F-34000 Montpellier
The telephone number of Voluntas in Montpellier  is:
Tel: 04.67.31.25.69  from abroad : 0033.467.31.25.69
mobile: 06 88 241255

There is a very good connection per TGV train, Montpellier airport and motorway A9 (exit 29)
Away from the center there are some nice budget hotels.

Information:

Every Wednesday from 20 till 21hrs, our physiotherapists Lut Coeckelbergs or Monique Haemels are available for telephone inquiries about the SeMoCo program.
Every morning from 9 till 13hrs you can call Dirk Goetschalckx about appointments and administrative questions.

Ask for our free DVD (17 min.) “Braindamage : what now”

The telephone number of Voluntas in Antwerpen is :
Tel: 03.647.02.88  from abroad : 0032.3.647.02.88.

Sensory-Motor Cognitive rehabilitation for families and persons with a handicap.
SeMoCo is a valuable holistic option with professional guidance for parents and their assistants, who consciously choose to develop their child with a handicap or developmental disorder within the family home.
SeMoCo 's goal is to offer an individual, ambulant rehabilitation process. In medical circles it is commonly accepted that the success of a rehabilitation process is directly proportional to the quality and the intensity.
SeMoCo is convinced that treating a development disorder requires the broadest approach possible from different disciplines, this stimulating the natural development of the central nerve system (CNS) of the child at the maximum.
The SeMoCo team addresses itself to patients with symptoms of insufficiency of the CNS. Hereto belongs the child or adolescent with cerebral palsy, acquired brain damage, learning disabilities, and autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, mental retardation, communication disabilities.

In view of the well-known solidarity of many years between our parents, you would oblige to announce this news also to other families.

SeMoCo is a full option under professional guidance:
for parents who choose to let their child with a handicap develop in -home situation.
-next to other therapy in a rehabilitationcentre
-as an alternative for out of home placement.

SeMoCo aims at offereing an individual therapy for rehabilitation. In general, medical circles do accept that the succes of a rehabilitation program is directly proportional to its quality and intensity. SeMoCo is confident that the treatment of a development disturbance needs an approach as broad as possible from various disciplines, in order to stimulate at most the natural development of the central nervous system.

SeMoCo centre has an intense collaboration with Szegda & Associastes and npo International organization for functional neurological development. (I.O.F.N.D)
With a permanent professional formation and assistance an extensive participation is possible on the one hand of personal assistants for handicapped people (PAB) and on the other hand of parents in the revalidation process of their child.

Auditory Integration Therapy
The human behaviour is for a great deal conditioned by the way we hear. Difficulties of the auditory perceptions can cause disorders on other areas besides hearing. After studying the correlation between disorders in hearing and other disorders like dyslexia, autism en depression, Dr. Guy Bérard developed the Auditory Integration Therapy (AIT).
Voluntas offers the Auditory Integration Therapy with the by Dr. Guy Bérard acknowledged Audiokinetron 'ears education and retraining system' and can be financed through the personal assistance budget (PAB).

Hydrotherapy
The movement in water as giving by our organisation is a manner of treatment toward a certain goal. It is giving by our fysiotherapists and for children with developmental delays (mental, motor of sensory).
The principles of the Halliwick method are followed.

Leisure activities

Voluntas also offers a wide range of leisure and freetime activities for persons with a handicap such as playinggrounds, hobby workshops and supports them to go to do sports and to participate in cultural events in the Antwerp region.
We also provide training for the npo Achilles to people and organizations that want to include and work with people with a handicap in their own organization (playgrounds, scoutinggroups)

For more information please contact our director Dirk Goetschalckx

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