Support for children with disabilities: overview of offers

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Support for children with disabilities should begin at an early age. The support includes various offers of help such as physiotherapy, educational or social help. Find out here which offers of support for disabled children are possible and which offers you can choose from.

What support is there for disabled children?

The support for children with disabilities, the so-called early support, is primarily precaution. It is intended to counteract major problems in child development at an early stage. For this reason, various courses such as baby swimming, baby shiatsu or PEKiP courses are offered with which you can support your offspring. Find out in the following article when a grant makes sense:

When should you start attending baby courses? Learn more about early intervention here.

The concept of early intervention also includes that in addition to the family medical, psychological, educational and social aids are also included. The following specialists such as specialists and paediatricians, physiotherapists, employees of early intervention centers, occupational therapists or speech therapists can be consulted to support disabled children. Measures such as:

Physical therapy: Physiotherapy is also known as physiotherapy. The goal of physiotherapy is to support children with motor disorders. Your ability to move around in everyday tasks should be made easier.
occupational Therapy: Occupational therapy deals with your child’s sensory stimuli. She wants to create emotional, motor and social experiences that support your child’s ability to act in everyday life. For example, we are working on how everyday items can be used despite the disability.
Speech therapy: Speech therapy is a speech therapy for children with a speech disorder that promotes your child’s willingness to communicate and skills, as well as the means of expression.
Moto therapy: Mototherapy is used to promote social-emotional behavior and to promote developmental deficits in perception and movement Of your child.
Psychology: The focus of psychological therapy is on accompanying parents and siblings when dealing with your child’s disability.
Special, integration and curative education: Here you get pedagogical help in the upbringing and care of your child in everyday life. Learning special communication methods such as sign language are also part of special, integration and curative education.
Parent-child courses / weekends

Legal entitlement to support for disabled children?

Your child has a legal right to necessary early intervention measures. It is described in the context of the Social Security Code IX as a complex benefit that can encompass all levels of benefits. According to SGB V (5) of the statutory health insurance, medical-psychotherapeutic-therapeutic services are the responsibility of the health insurance companies. Do you want the measures to promote your disabled Child? You should consult your family doctor or pediatrician in advance. His referrals and medical prescriptions are the basis for further treatments.

What support is there for disabled children?

Legal entitlement to support for disabled children?

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