Assessment & Intervention for Developmental Difficulties in Children in Peristeri

Η Evaluation is of paramount importance because it is our first contact with the child and his/her family, during which all the time needed to help parents understand what is at stake at any given time. From taking a detailed history, recording the request, observing the child's clinical picture to administering the evaluative tests and tools, this meeting determines the whole essence and the question of a parent, which is none other than whether the difficulty he sees in the child is valid and what he needs to improve it.

So along the way very often (if not always) comes the Intervention. It requires just as much attention, interest and therapeutic competence from the people involved with the child. Developmental difficulties occur in a variety of ways in children very different from one another, and in many cases the Sensory Integration (SI) is a key part of the therapeutic approach.

So the most important thing for the right intervention is first to get the right diagnosis. This is given by the Child psychiatrist us in a Examination which is implemented within our Centre by appointment. In this way, our multidisciplinary team meets on the same day and sets up a therapeutic valid protocol in which very often the parent is involved as a “co-therapist” and the child is helped better and faster.

Finally, at the end of the period set by the doctor for each intervention, the parents, therapists, doctors and/or teachers of the child follow up and decide whether to stop or continue the intervention based on the verification of the achievement of the objectives.