Designed with leading-edge technology and resources, the three clinical rehab units located in São Bernardo do Campo (SP), São Paulo (SP) and Taubaté (SP) offer interdisciplinary attendance for persons with different types of disabilities and/or disorders in general, from new-born babies to the elderly.

Patients are attended by professionals with different specialties, among them neurologists, physiatrists, neuropediatricians, pediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, psycho-pedagogues, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and social assistants. At the Clinical Units, a psychosocial and pedagogical approach to attendance is used, where the aim is clinical habilitation and rehab though prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Attendance begins with the person participating in a selection and evaluation process in medical and paramedical specialties, so as to diagnose and draw up a treatment plan according to the individual needs of each patient.

Get to know the main programs:

Therapy Programs

Therapeutic Approach Group: intended for persons with multiple disabilities or intellectual disability. The aim is to provide support for patients and their families, ensuring better adaptation and quality of life at home and in community environment. The group also benefits the maintenance of motor and functional standards acquired, so as to avoid deformities and contractions.

Basic Stimulation Group: intended for persons with intellectually disability or with significant NPMD (Neuropsychomotor Development) delay in the over-four years’ old age bracket, where other associated disabilities may be present.
The Group stimulates the development of individual potentialities in the cognitive, adaptative and personal-social, day-to-day activity, language and motor areas, taking into account the development phases referring to the period from 0 to 6 years of age when compared to the normal scale of development.

Vocational Guidance: for young people, adolescents and adults (over the age of 14), with or without disabilities, in search of vocational guidance. The work is done by psychologists who analyze the potentialities, skills and abilities, so as to provide guidance in choosing a profession.

Global Postural Re-education (RPG): for patients clinically diagnosed as suffering from postural alterations and having an algic state. The aim is postural adaptation and re-education of the algic state by means of therapeutic action on the muscle groups.

Interdisciplinary Mental Health Group: for persons with organic mental disorders, schizophrenia, schizotypical and delusional disorders, bipolar disorder and serious depression. The group seeks to promote an environment where the person can develop aspects involving reasoning, self perception and perception of their surroundings, social and behavioral skills, creativity and responsibility through handcraft and expressive activities for better coexistence and social inclusion.

Adaptative Areas Development Group: for persons with intellectual disabilities, the purpose is to stimulate social skills, with the aim of facilitating the inclusion of young people in living together centers or professional rehabilitation programs. It also contributes to psychosocial adjustment and professional success.

Group for Restructuring Affective and Social Relations: for persons diagnosed with invasive development disorder and/or serious intellectual disability. The aim is to stimulate global development and provide family guidance, with the focus on attitude to education, relations, acceptance of the diagnosis and the use of medication when necessary.

Occupational Therapy Group: intended for adults and adolescents over the age of 12 with (light/moderate) intellectual, physical, sensory and/or social disabilities. It seeks to prepare and develop potentialities, skills and the behavior required for personal and social adaptation in individuals with disabilities or social needs.

Animal-Assisted Therapy: is a therapy process in which the therapist, the dog and the trainer participate within the remit of a project with a strictly scientific scope, whose objectives are defined in advanced and directed by the therapist. The program involves a specialist team, two handlers and volunteer dogs, in addition to a partnership with the Dr. Hato Veterinary Hospital in São Paulo / SP.

Orthotics Workshop: aims to manufacture devices for therapeutic applications and under doctor’s prescription, which assist a person with disability organ or function.

Neuropsychology: for persons with possible cognitive difficulties of a neurological or behavioral origin of diverse aetilogies: degenerative diseases, strokes, tumors, epilepsy, cranial trauma, damage of metabolic or toxic origin, infectious processes (HIV, herpes-derived encephalitis), ADHD, OCD and dyslexia. The aim is to study human behavior as the basis for the functioning of the brain. This way a more precise and early diagnosis is obtained of local brain damage, making it possible to set up therapeutic and re-educational action programs.