Early intervention center

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Early intervention centers are facilities that offer handicapped or children at risk of disability in the first years of life (mostly from 0 to 3 years, in Hesse until they start school), curative educational and, in interdisciplinary early intervention centers, also medical-therapeutic help.

These are institutions that work on an outpatient or mobile basis; This means that the staff employed there (for example therapeutic teachers and physiotherapists ) visit the children in their parents' home or in the kindergarten and carry out the necessary therapies there . The parents or other caregivers of the child should be made aware of the child's needs and abilities and should be enabled to continue exercises independently.

The main cost bearers of early intervention are the social assistance providers and the statutory health insurance . Parents have a legal right to social assistance to cover the costs regardless of their income. The early intervention centers are mostly sponsored by the voluntary welfare organization ( e.g. Diakonisches Werk , Caritas , DPWV ) or, as legally independent institutions, members of the voluntary welfare organization. Lebenshilfe is a major supporter . There are also municipal early intervention centers.

For children with a sensory impairment ( blindness , visual impairment , deafness and hearing impairment ) there is special early support until they start school. This is carried out by special school teachers in the relevant subject. These early intervention centers are located at the respective special needs schools .

List of state education centers in Lower Saxony