References and experts
Neurorehabilitation
At the Aspace Catalunya Foundation, we offer comprehensive and highly specialized care focused on the neurorehabilitation of people with neurodevelopmental pathologies, cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities throughout their lives. We integrate the health, social and educational aspects, together with accompaniment and support for families, with the aim of covering all aspects of the person.
We take into account the referential framework of the CIF and the F-Words (which are the adaptation proposed by DR. Rosenbaum based on the CIF) to apply them in the neurorehabilitative treatment of people with neurodevelopmental pathologies.
The International Classification of Functioning (ICF) of Disability and Health carried out by the World Health Organization is a universal classification that establishes a framework and a language to describe health and the dimensions related to them.
Neurodevelopmental disorders
According to recent data, neurodevelopmental disorders affect between 5% and 10% of the population. It usually starts in childhood and before puberty, when the brain is developing.
According to Thapar, Cooper, and Rutter, neurodevelopmental disorders are “a heterogeneous group of conditions characterized by a delay or impairment in skill acquisition in a variety of developmental domains including motor, social, language and cognition".
Any factor that alters the complex process of brain development can cause the person not to show typical neurological development. Although, in many cases, the etiology is unknown, the causes can be classified into:
Neurodevelopmental disorders have their origins in early childhood or during the developmental process. The first symptoms can be detected and treated early.
The alterations caused by these conditions generate difficulties of varying intensity in the processes of adaptation and social participation and/or in carrying out basic activities for life and survival. The activity of people with neurodevelopmental disorders is limited or altered.
The great diversity existing within neurodevelopmental disorders is reflected in the fact that some people show specific deficits that do not prevent them from having an independent and full life. For example, difficulties in maintaining focused attention.
Other people, however, will need support throughout their lives to survive, because they fail to develop those basic skills necessary for an independent existence. Like now, the ability to walk or feed themselves and, it is in this complexity of deficits, where we base our work.
At the Aspace Foundation, we address users of all profiles, including the most complex, where the cognitive deficit is evident. They may also have comorbidity with other neurodevelopmental pathologies: such as communication and relationship disorders or features of the autistic spectrum.
The therapies we have include: behavioral interventions from psychology, psychosocial support and neuropsychological rehabilitation, speech therapy, physiotherapy or occupational therapy, among other options that stimulate the skills that people have not been able to develop properly. In addition to offering the support necessary to live a life full of meaning.
Neurorehabilitation achieves its true meaning, effectiveness and usefulness when all these interventions are transferred to the person's natural environment: at home, residence, day center or occupational therapy centers. Complementing daily activities we achieve maximum functional autonomy and active participation in the community.
