Description
Description
The aim of integration assistance is to prevent or alleviate a disability. If your child has a disability or is at risk of a disability, you can be granted additional benefits for care at the daycare center. Individual support needs must be identified for this.
Your child can be cared for in an integrative group with children with disabilities and children without disabilities or alone in a group with children without disabilities (individual integration). Additional services are possible in crèche groups (children under the age of 3), kindergarten groups (children from the age of 3) and in after-school groups (from school entry until the age of 14).
If there is a specific need for support, children can also be looked after in a curative kindergarten for children with a mental or physical disability, in a speech therapy kindergarten or in a curative kindergarten for children with a hearing impairment.
Speech therapy kindergartens or remedial kindergartens for children with a hearing impairment care for children with a significant speech or hearing impairment that is not merely temporary - usually after the age of 4. They receive both curative education and medical-therapeutic services there.
Curative education kindergartens, speech therapy kindergartens and curative education kindergartens for children with a hearing impairment specialize in the support and care of children with disabilities. They do not always offer joint care for children with and without disabilities. If the integration assistance provider determines that your child has individual support needs, it will cover the costs of the services. Your income and assets may be taken into account.
In a speech therapy kindergarten or in a curative education kindergarten for children with a hearing impairment, curative education and medical-therapeutic services are provided together as "speech therapy treatment" (interdisciplinary complex service). The basis for this is the Lower Saxony "Agreement on curative educational support and medical therapies in speech therapy kindergartens". The local integration assistance provider determines whether your child has a need - with the involvement of the Hearing, Speech and Vision Advisory Service of the Lower Saxony State Office for Social Affairs, Youth and Family.