Who we help

What we help with

Children come to us with very different questions. What they usually have in common is that something has stalled in how they interact with the world around them. For example:

• difficult or unpredictable behaviour
• difficulty regulating emotions
• neurodiversity, including autism and ADHD
• responses connected to a distressing event
• difficulty making themselves understood
• growing up between several languages and cultures

The children who fall between provisions

Waiting times in Dutch youth care are long. In some regions, access to a day centre or to speech and language therapy can take a considerable time. This creates a group of children who are not yet ready for special education or for a group setting, but who meanwhile receive too little individual treatment to ever make that step.

Those children are exactly who we are here for. We work one to one on the skills a child needs to take part in a class or group, and then stay involved while they make the move into that class.

Families with a multilingual or international background

Around a quarter of young people in the Netherlands have at least one parent born abroad. Even so, treatment that takes account of language, culture and parenting style remains scarce.

We work in Dutch and English, and Portuguese is spoken within our team. More important than the language is that we do not assume one way of raising children. What is self-evident in one family is not in another, and our treatment follows that.