Identification of special educational needs - Luxembourg

Identification of Special Needs

Early Intervention

Once the evaluation of a child’s problems has been made in the hospital, his/her parents are directed to Social Security, where they are informed about their rights: double family allowance, more paid free days, tax reduction etc.

The child can stay for a certain time at the hospital, where early intervention may begin. When he/she comes home, a team from a medical organization (hospital, centre for rehabilitation, association of early intervention) takes responsibility for the child. At the age of 4 years, the child will be enrolled into an educational organization.

There are several services responsible for children with special needs during early childhood: there are services of functional or pedagogical re-education.

The “Service de Rééducation Précoce”

The “Service de Rééducation Précoce” takes care of children from age 0 to 4 in order to

• observe
• evaluate
• screen
• guide
• treat
• re-educate

This service comprises different specialists (doctors and paramedical staff) who take charge of the toddlers and small children (0-4 years old) which show the following disorders : 

- motor disorders

- sensory disorders

- learning and fine motor disorders 

- communication and language disorders 

- behavioral disorders 

- retarded development

The multidisciplinary team consists of : 

• physiotherapists who are specialized in the reeducating of early childhood motor disorders 
• occupational therapists taking charge of the sensory and coordination disorders 
• speech therapists guiding the re-education of language and swallowing disorders 
• psychologists who draw development reports of the children and give advice in the case of educational difficulties 
• specialist teachers who encourage the social and mental development by group plays 
• doctors specialized in functional re-education and re-adaptation who follow the reports of the children, ensure the relations with the attending doctors and coordinate the re-education.

Address:

Centre :                                                         North :

59, rue des Romains                                     77-79, Grand-Rue

L-8041 Strassen                                           L-9051 Ettelbruck

Tél. : ++352/ 251030                                  Tél. : ++352/26810327

E-mail : srp@iha.lu                                       E-mail: srp@pt.lu 

Web : www.srp.lu 

”Service d’intervention précoce orthopédagogique “ (Sipo)

Stimulation of the development and orientation of children with special education needs. 

The Sipo is an NGO founded on private initiative and recognized of common public interest. Its goal is to offer the toddlers and small children with special educaion needs or being backwarded, an educational stimulation in the family. This educational support involves a close cooperation between the parents and the department of early intervention. It consists in giving educational and practical advices and in discussing questions related to the retarded development of their child. 

The early intervention is destinated to children from age 0 to 6 presenting : 

- retarded development or deficiencies in one or several fields (motility, perception, language, behaviour) 

- a handicap (cerebral palsy, trisomy 21, multiple handycaps) 

- risk development (e.g.: preterm birth, particular diseases) 

Address:

7, rue du Millénaire 

L-8254 Mamer 

Phone : ++352/ 447171

E-mail : info@sipo.lu

Web site : www.sipo.lu

Hellef Fir de Puppelchen (ASBL)

This service operates in the same way as the “Service de Rééducation Précoce”(SRP).

Both of these services depend from the Ministry of Health. The service Hellef fir de Puppelchen takes charge of children with special needs from the south and the east of the country and the SRP children from the centre and the north. 

In the service Hellef fir de Puppelchen is working a multidisciplinary team (specialist paediatrician, speech therapist, psychologist, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, specialised pedagogue).

This service offers motor and pedagogical stimulation in the families’ home or in the centre depending on the availability and the needs of the parents.

Address:

SERVICE   “HELLEF FIR DE PUPPELCHEN"

9, rue Victor Hugo

L-4140 Esch/Alzette

Phone: ++352/ 546677

E-mail: hfp@pt.lu

Groupement d'Etude et d'Aide au Développement de l'Enfant (GEADE) / Benjamin Club

This team of professionals offers its help to children and their parents.

The aim is to reduce and improve as early as possible (between 0 and 4 years) development problems related to the social and familiar environment of the child.

Game-groups (Benjamin Club) with educational animation (for children from 8 month to 4 years) are offered.

Address:

G.E.A.D.E.

B.P. 268

L-9003 Ettelbrück

Phone: ++352/ 811298

E-mail: benjamin-club@education.lu

Web site: www.benjamin-club.lu

Service d'Education Précoce du Centre de Logopédie 

A service of early intervention, designated to children from 2-4 years and focusing upon speech and/or hearing problems operates in the “Centre de Logopédie”. Parents can contact the responsible person of the service at the “Centre de Logopédie” and make an appointment.

Address:

CENTRE DE LOGOPEDIE

Val St. André

L-1128 Luxembourg

Phone : ++ 352/ 445565-1

E-mail : admin@logopedie.lu

Web site: www.restena.lu/logo/

AUDIOPHONOLOGICAL UNIT 

The audiophonological unit is a service for detection and readaptation of communication disorders : language/speech/voice/hearing 

Address : 

3, route d’Arlon 

L-8009 Strassen

Tel. : +352 / 445464-1

E-mail: sap@ms.etat.lu 

SERVICE ORTHOPTIQUE ET PLEOPTIQUE

This service is a service for detection of visual impairment (prevention / advice / reports taken in charge by medical prescription)

Address :

26, Place de la Gare 

L-1616 Luxembourg 

Tél. : ++352 545828-1

E-mail: sop@ms.etat.lu 

Compulsory Schooling 

Parents, inspectors of primary education and teachers are invited to identify and report children with special needs to the Commission medico-psycho-pédagogique nationale (CMPPN).

The organisation of the participation of children with special needs in mainstream schools involves a functional diagnostic assessment based on multi-disciplinary observations allowing the establishment of an individual educational plan for each child. The educational staffs elaborate upon this plan: The teacher, the educationalist and each concerned person in collaboration with the parents and approved by the inspector of the resort.

To allow the child with a special need to develop properly, a re-examination of the individual educational plan can be asked for by each concerned person during the school year.

General attributions of the CMPPN:

- advise the minister of National Education in taking decisions in favor of children with pedagogical, intellectual, emotional, sensory and social problems, who have difficulties in pre-primary, primary, as well as in Special Education

- make sure that children with special needs are detected in pre-primary and primary education

- assist each person, responsible for a child with special needs

- recommend preventive measures and pedagogical assistance for children having learning difficulties

The CMPPN:

Develops for each identified child a file containing the following information:

-reports, giving information about the eventual specific problem (established by specialists)

-a final psychological report, established by a member of the “Service de Guidance (SGE)” or by a psychologist of a centre of special education

-reports, established by services, who took in charge the child before his schooling

- a pedagogical report, established by a pedagogue of the “Service Ré-Educatif Ambulatoire (SREA)”, giving information about learning possibilities and eventual measures of assistance to envisage

- a report of a social assistant of the concerned social service

- a report, established by a member of the services of Special Education , giving information about the parents’ opinion

- a school evaluation developed under the responsibility of the inspector

Makes a proposal regarding schooling;

Transmits this proposal to the parents or the person responsible for the child, who take the decision of schooling;

Receives the demand of transfer to a pre-primary, primary or special school of a child visiting a class of Special Education;

Gives advice in case of prolongation of the child’s school-time exceeding school obligation and in case of demands of dispensation of school obligation for health reasons.

Transition Period 

The service of handicapped workers (Service des Travailleurs Handicapés: STH), depending from the Ministry of Work, is a service specialised in the professional orientation of people with special needs

The aim of this service is:

-vocational training, readjustment, vocational rehabilitation 

-job finding

-re-education and professional re-integration

Each person with special needs may introduce a request to get the status of handicapped worker.

These persons have to fulfill the following conditions:

- to be registered at the service for handicapped workers at the administration of employment;

- to have a physical, mental, sensorial, psychological and/or psycho-social handicap;

- to be 16 years old;

- to have a capacity of work reduced at least for 30% because of a disease, an accident or natural causes.

The person concerned has to contact the medical commission of the ADEM (public job center) in order to inform himself about the formalities necessary to obtain the status of disabled worker and to get himself issued a form for the application for recognition. 

The medical committee decides if the person has a right to the disabled worker status. 

If the disabled worker status is recognized, the medical commission passes the file on to the orientation and vocational redeployment committee 

This committee decides if the person concerned is guided towards the ordinary labor market or towards a sheltered workshop.