The main objective of the Early Assistance Unit is that children that have development disorders or are in risk of having them, as difficulties in learning (language, motor, social, cognitive and adaptation) have all what they need to strength their ability of development and confort.
Objectives
That's why the IMED Early Assistance Unit has the following objectives:
- Reduce the effects of impairment or deficiency about child’s global development.
- Improve, as far as possible, child’s development.
- Introduce the compensation mechanisms, barrier elimination and adaptation to the specific needs.
- Avoid or reduce the appearance of secondary effects or deficiencies or associated, produced by a disorder or a high risk situation.
- Take care and cover the needs and demands of the family and the surrounding in which the child lives.
- Consider the child as an active individual of the intervention.
Pathologies
In our department we deal with all kind of development difficulties such as:
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Speach and language delay
- Attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity or not
- Pervasive developmental disorders
- Learning difficulties
- Behavior problems
- Syndrom (Down, Asperger, etc)
Professionals
Unit Coordinators
Paloma Carceller Sauras
ATENCIóN TEMPRANA
IMED Levante, IMED International Center
Early Assitance Unit, Brain Injury Unit