Children with disabilities of kindergarten and preschool age
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzKindergarten care
All children are legally entitled to education, training and care in kindergarten from the age of three (from August 1, 2010 from the age of two) until they start school. Children with disabilities may also have an additional legal entitlement to integration assistance to compensate for their disability.
In Rhineland-Palatinate, there are the following types of provision
- "Individual integration in daycare centers",
- "Integrative groups" (five children with and 10 children without disabilities) and
- "Curative education groups" (eight children with disabilities).
This choice is important for the parents concerned. The individual needs of the child with a disability are determined as part of individual participation planning, which is carried out in close consultation and involvement with the parents.
Further information on day care centers can be found here.
(for adults + children and teenagers)
The purpose of integration assistance for people with disabilities is to prevent an impending disability or to eliminate or alleviate a disability and its consequences. A further aim is to enable or facilitate the participation of people with disabilities in life in the community.
The benefits of integration assistance include in particular
- Early intervention services and early identification of disabled children and children at risk of disability,
- curative education services for children who have not yet started school,
- Help with an appropriate school education,
- help with school education for an appropriate profession,
- Help to attend a university,
- benefits for medical rehabilitation,
- Benefits for participation in working life,
- Services in the work area of a recognized workshop for disabled people,
- Benefits for participation in life in the community.
Persons who are not only temporarily mentally, emotionally or physically disabled or at risk of such a disability and who are significantly restricted in their ability to participate in society are entitled to integration assistance. The benefits of integration assistance are subordinate to the benefits of other social service providers/rehabilitation providers (e.g. health insurance, pension insurance providers, employment agency, accident insurance providers).
If the personal (belonging to the group of people) and financial requirements (income and assets check) are met, the specific need for participation due to the disability is determined by means of individual participation planning together with the person concerned. It is then determined which integration assistance measure is suitable to cover these participation needs. Every person with a disability who submits an application should receive support tailored to their personal needs. The individual participation plan also sets out the goals that are to be achieved with the specific measure within a specified period of time.
If the municipal administration becomes aware of a need, an employee of the social services department for integration assistance will clarify in an initial meeting with the person requesting assistance whether there is a need for integration assistance services in accordance with Chapter 6 of SGB XII.
If so, the requirements (belonging to the group of people, financial requirements) for the granting of benefits are checked in the subsequent application process. Individual participation planning is carried out together with the person making the request, in which the need for participation is determined and a specific measure of integration assistance is defined.