Offenbach Hospital, Social Pediatric Center

Target group

Parents of infants, children or adolescents

• after a high-risk birth (e.g. premature birth)
• with delayed motor, speech or mental development
• with movement disorders
• with neurological disorders (e.g. cerebral seizure disorders, EEG diagnostics)
• with conspicuous emotional, social or play behavior
• with attention and concentration problems
• with learning difficulties and partial performance disorders
• with perceptual problems
• with suspected autism or other profound developmental disorders

Counseling topics:

• Comprehensive diagnostics
• Creation of a support plan
• Counseling and therapy

Further information :
The Social Pediatric Center (SPZ) is an outpatient facility of the Offenbach Clinic. We treat premature babies, children and adolescents who show developmental abnormalities or are disabled. Our tasks include comprehensive diagnostics, the creation of a support concept, counseling and therapy. In this context, we contact doctors in private practice, therapists and other specialists from educational and social institutions. An interdisciplinary team works at the Social Pediatric Center.

Our professional groups:

• Pediatric and adolescent medicine / neuropaediatrics
• Pediatric nursing
• Psychology and psychotherapy
• Motopedics (psychomotor skills)
• Curative education / social pedagogy
• Social work
• Occupational therapy
• Speech therapy
• Physiotherapy (Bobath, Vojta, Feldenkrais)
• Administration

Specific services:

• Neuropaediatrics
  - Developmental neurological / neuropaediatric diagnostics and therapy
  - Metabolic disorders, neurodegenerative diseases
  - Cerebral seizure diagnostics and therapy, drug treatment, ADHD
  - Diagnosis of central information processing disorder
  - Speech / communication diagnostics
  - Human genetic counseling
  - Psychotherapeutic measures
  - Provision of aids
  - Indication testing of therapeutic measures
• Autism diagnostics (ADOS)
• ADHD diagnostics and therapy (Attentioner)
• Counseling services for multilingual families on questions of language development
• Heidelberg parent training for parents of children with delayed language development
• Learning therapy services in connection with central information disorders
• Psychological counseling for parents of children with disabilities or after premature birth
• Graphomotor diagnostics and instruction
• Castillo-Morales therapy (for sucking, chewing, swallowing and speech disorders)
• Social counseling for families of children with disabilities (care allowance, severe disability pass, family support)

Member of the Early Help Network

Mon - Fri 8:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 15:30