Centre ARPIDA

 

A - action

R - rehabilitation

P - help

I - integration

D - voluntariness

A - agape (Christian love)

ARPIDA, centrum pro rehabilitaci osob se zdravotním postižením,o.s.

(ARPIDA, Centre for the rehabilitation of handicapped people)

U Hvízdala 9                                                370 11  České Budějovice

tel.: 385521287                                           fax: 385520834,

e-mail: info at arpida dot cz                               http://www.arpida.cz

Company ID: 65053079                            Account No.: 161544543/0300

The ARPIDA Centre is an independent non-profit organisation providing complex care for children, youth and young adults with a physical (motor) disability or combined handicap in the spirit of a comprehensive rehabilitation system. In its professional activity it functionally interconnects the care in the social, health and education areas.

The ARPIDA Centre provides professional care through:

Social services of the ARPIDA Centre

·        daily social welfare institution

·        personal assistance

·        early care

·        social and therapeutic workshops

·        social rehabilitation

Independent Medical Departments within the ARPIDA Centre

·        child neurology

·        rehabilitation

·        paediatrics

·        orthopaedics

·        psychological care

·        clinical speech therapy

·        two-week rehabilitation stays for children and parents

·        physiotherapy

·        ergotherapy

·        hydrotherapy (rehabilitation pool)

·        magnetotherapy

·        thermotherapy

·        acupuncture

·        animal assisted therapy (hippotherapy, canistherapy)

The team of professionals includes: child neurologist, rehabilitation doctor, orthopaedic surgeon, paediatrician, child psychologists, clinical speech therapists, physiotherapists, ergotherapists, other therapists, child nurse and a hippologist

 

Kindergartens, primary schools and practical schools within the ARPIDA Centre, o.p.s.

·        kindergarten

·        primary school

·        primary practical school

·        special primary school (rehabilitation education programme)

·        two-year practical school

·        preparatory level of special needs primary school

·        special needs education centre

·        special interest clubs

·        after-school centre

·        school canteen

Employees of the special needs education centre closely cooperate with the independent medical centre (diagnosis, therapy, arthetherapy, music therapy, dramatherapy, etc.)

The ARPIDA Centre cooperates with domestic and foreign partners and is a clinical working place of the Faculty of Health and Social Studies of the University of South Bohemia.