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 organisation (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 organisation.
There are several services responsible for children with special needs during early childhood: there are services of functional or pedagogical re-education.
Le Service de Reeducation Precoce
Early re-education is a method of systematized apprenticeship, where the development of the different functions like mobility, perception and communication through language and thinking, are learned and trained step by step, in sequences defined in a programme of re-education.
The development of each child is a unique and complex event, which deeply determines the global personality of the child. The re-education involves the whole child: his behaviour, feelings and thoughts.
The “Service de Rééducation Précoce” gather different specialists (doctors and paramedical personnel), responsible for babies and children from 0-4 years, presenting one ore more problems:
- motor difficulties
- sensorial difficulties
- behavioural difficulties
- developmental difficulties
- communication and language problems
The team of specialists is composed of:
- paediatrician
- physiotherapist
- speech therapist
- occupational therapist
- pedagogues
- psychologist
They assume paramedical treatments and social-educational responsibility.
Address:
SERVICE DE RE-EDUCATION PRECOCE
8, Place Verte
L-8159 Bridel
Phone : ++352/ 251030
E-mail : srp@iha.lu
Le Service d'Intervention Précoce Orthopédagogique (SIPO)
The aim of this service, created in 1980, is to offer to babies and young children with special needs, a pedagogical stimulation within the family setting. This pedagogical assistance involves a strong collaboration between the parents and the service. The SIPO gives educational and practical advice to the parents.
Early intervention is addressed to children (from 0-6 years) showing developmental problems or deficiencies in one or more fields (motility, behaviour, language, perception)
Address:
SERVICE D’INTERVENTION PRECOCE ORTHOPEDAGOGIQUE
60, Avenue de la Faïencerie
L-1510 Luxembourg
Phone : ++352/ 447171
E-mail : info@sipo.lu
Web site : http://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
++352/ 545544
E-mail: josiane.bechet@handitel.lu
Groupement d'Etude et d'Aide au Developpement de l'Enfant (GEADE)
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 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: http://www.benjamin-club.lu
Service d'Education Precoce du Centre de Logopedie
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: http://www.restena.lu/logo/
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 favour 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
-job finding
-re-education and professional integration
Each person with special needs may introduce a request to get the status of handicapped worker.
These persons have to fulfil 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 15 years old;
- to have a capacity of work reduced at least for 30% because of a disease, an accident or natural causes.
A commission for professional orientation and reclassification (Commission d’orientation et de reclassement professionnel : COR)
- investigates the requests of recognition of the status of handicapped worker;
- decides on the recognition, the refusal or the withdrawal of the status.
When the status of handicapped worker is recognised, the director of the administration of employment, regarding the proposal of the COR , may fix the measures to be taken to facilitate the professional integration of people with special needs.
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