Early support for children with disabilities

In Rhineland-Palatinate, eight "social pediatric centers" with affiliated early intervention centers offer early detection and early intervention services.

These are located in

• Bad Kreuznach,
• Göllheim,
• Mainz,
• Landau,
• Landstuhl,
• Ludwigshafen,
• Neuwied and
• Trier.

A comprehensive range of branch offices ensures that children are cared for close to home.

The work of the early intervention centers focuses on the early detection, support and treatment of developmental disorders, impending disabilities and existing disabilities in children and adolescents.

Children and young people with abnormalities in all areas of development, chronic illnesses, disabilities and impending disabilities can be referred to the centers for social pediatrics with early intervention for clarification of problematic development.

Early detection and early intervention services can be provided in particular for :

• Infants and toddlers with a history of risk factors
• Children with general developmental abnormalities
• Children with movement disorders of all kinds
• Children with speech development disorders
• Children with cerebral seizures and epilepsy
• Children with congenital malformations
• Children with behavioral problems
• Schoolchildren with partial performance disorders and with additional emotional disorders
• children with multiple disabilities

can be considered.

Early intervention for children with sensory disabilities is provided at the State School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Neuwied, the State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Neuwied, the Wilhelm Hubert Cüppers School in Trier and the Pfalzinstitut für Hören und Kommunikation in Frankenthal. In addition, individual local Lebenshilfen offer early home support