Our specialised treatments from Enable Therapy Services
Each child’s treatments are individually tailored and specifically focused to your child’s abilities and needs. Children will always learn best through play and we like our sessions to be fun to make the experience enjoyable for your child. This is essential for them to achieve their full potential from therapy.
Treatment sessions are delivered in our clinics and can be offered either at your home, at school or nursery or at a mixture of the two, whichever is most appropriate to your family’s needs. Treatment can also be offered within a group. Treatment can be with an individual therapist or joint sessions involving different disciplines together, depending on the child’s needs and parental request.
Treatment sessions can be offered weekly, or in blocks of 6 weekly or fortnightly sessions, or as appropriate for your child. Treatment will work towards clearly identified goals that have been agreed between the parent and therapist. These goals will be regularly reviewed and evaluated as your child’s treatment progresses.
If your child has already been assessed by a qualified and registered therapist within the past 6 months and you would like us to follow treatment recommendations from a previous report, we are happy to do so if we are provided with a full copy of the report and the previous therapist’s contact details.
Some of our treatment strategies includes,
MARTE MEO (SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL)
Marte Meo has proven to be a very useful approach to enhance social attention, support language and communication development and social interactions. Specially children with autism lack all these competences and they have to be developed. Marte Meo is also very useful because the approach guides parents and teachers and develops natural supportive behaviour, which is used all the time. Children get daily support through their parents and not only during therapeutic sessions. The intense collaboration with the parents is based on the newer ecological and interactive concepts of child development, which emphasizes the importance of the environment and the interaction that takes place in it.
MULTI ELEMENT BEHAVIOURAL SUPPORT
Multi-Element Behaviour Support(MEBS) model is an approach that acknowledges the idea that difficult behaviour is a language used by people who, have no other way to relay their message. The behaviour becomes unnecessary, when the behaviour finds a voice. It is based on a two-part assessment that involves ‘getting to know the person’ and ‘getting to understand the behaviour.’ This assessment forms the foundation for a multi-element behaviour support plan that focuses on not only reducing the behaviour, but also on improving the person’s skills and lifestyle.
THERAPEUTIC LISTENING
Therapeutic Listening is a specific sound-based intervention that is embedded in a developmental and sensory integration perspective. The music in Therapeutic Listening gives the listener unique and precisely controlled sensory information. The music is electronically modified to highlight the parts of the sound spectrum that naturally capture attention and activate body movement, synchronizing it with the environment. Therapeutic Listening uses electronic modifications, along with the organised rhythmical sound patterns inherent in music to trigger the self-organising capabilities of the nervous system.
DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH
This approach focuses on growth and development throughout the lifespan of the human body, which evolves into a unique and dynamic individual. The developmental approach explores the lifespan cycle of children.
Human body develops over time in different attributes, which makes a person: biological, physical, social, emotional and cognitive (Kramer et al 2003; Cronin and Mandich 2016). Individual gradually changes and adapts from completing simple tasks to a more complex level of function (Cronin and Mandich 2016), therefore are constantly learning and developing new skills to improve their occupational meaning in life.
