Somatic Care

Changing how medicine approaches complex neurodevelopmental profiles

For many non-verbal or otherwise neurodivergent people, pain and medical distress are still too often misread as "behavioral problems." Life House works from a different premise: when behavior changes, the body must be investigated.

Across the fieldwork behind Life House, one conclusion appeared again and again: medical care for highly complex neurodevelopmental profiles remains too poorly adapted. Gastrointestinal pain, sensory pain, sleep disorders, metabolic issues, or medication side effects are often overlooked or treated too late.

Up to

80%

of severe crises may be linked to somatic causes that have not been properly identified or treated. If that is true, somatic investigation should not be secondary. It should be central.

Life House is therefore developing an approach based on crossed medical perspectives, adapted consultations, close observation, home-based understanding when needed, and stronger collaboration between specialists and daily care teams. The objective is not only better diagnosis, but better protocols.

Life House is building toward an embedded somatic consultation model that can support people living on site, people at home, and, over time, other institutions looking for more preventive and more adapted approaches.