SeMoCo-centre

Program
1.Sensorial, Motorial, Cognitive
rehabilitation program

1.1. To which families we offer our SeMoCo-program?

We focus on patients with disabilities of the central nervous system (CNS). This includes the child or youngster with cerebral palsy (CP), traumatic brain damage, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, mental retardation and communication disorders.

Many of our families have to wait a long time before they get the results of medical examinations in order to get a diagnosis and in many cases diagnosis was not so much as told to them.
Parents and family members have a lot of questions: "Will he/she be able to walk later, will he/she be able to speak or maybe a few words of nothing at all…? He has global retardation, but in which degree?"

"With Pieter we observe a global retardation and at the same time a state of panic getting more and more notorious. . When he is screaming at night we can not comfort him.
The communication between him and us is fading away day by day and the contact seems to slip from our hands. His isolation is increasing."

"After Sam had spoken his first words, when he was 1 year old, he started falling off and getting worse with him. Learn new skills was difficult and the ones he even acquired he started to loose. Sam started screaming, running, fluttering, turning endlessly in circles. He stopped with imitating and playing and was even afraid of new things."

"Because the stimulus from the environment was so unpleasant and threatening to Ilse, she had no interest in exploring it, so she would rather just sit and watch video alone. Compared to an average child, Ilse did not get to same motor and sensory sensations. Therefore her development and learning was very slow."

Children who are very active en show less concentration, end up in trouble a lot. Teachers, therapists and parents think that children have a conscious cognitive control of their behaviour. If a child is not paying attention we say: "Kris doesn't want to pay attention". But he wants to pay attention, but he can't. Even if he tries very hard, he just can't do it.

We see that children with sensory difficulties their sensory system doesn't help them to understand the world, but the work against them. Those sensory difficulties create a challenge for the motor en cognitive development of the child and can even cause a delay.