Child with a disability: You are entitled to this support

Child with disabilities: What support is there for families?

Families need support because disabled children need a lot of attention and affection. Parents also have to have a job or do something for themselves. Only when everyone in the family is balanced can you properly care for and support your child who has speech disorders , behavioral problems or hearing impairments. Find out in our special on child development how you can properly support your offspring in their development:

Here you will find an overview of offers from various institutions that offer support for disabled children and their families:

Family Support Services

Support for disabled children and their families is offered, for example, by family support services (FuD). The sponsors are mostly welfare organizations or associations for the disabled, such as Diakonie or Caritas. The family-friendly services are flexible and take care of the needs of your offspring individually at your home or in special care rooms. You can decide on the scope of the help. The offers of the family relief service include:

• Assistance in finding and placing host families
• Care and nursing aids at your home or in the care rooms of the family relief service for a few hours or days
• Accompaniment and assistance in kindergarten , school , living, education, work and leisure
• driving services
• Mental and socio-legal care of the family
• Supervision and care of individual severe disabilities

These services are financed, among other things, by long-term care insurance, which provides long-term care allowance and benefits in kind.

Support for disabled children through assistance

Support for disabled children can also be provided by an assistant. With this help, your offspring can lead a largely independent life despite their disability. Therefore, everyday assistance is offered for the following activities:

• Accompaniment to kindergarten, to the educational institution or to work
• Assistance with everyday tasks at home
• Help and support with leisure activities
• Support for parents in the care, nursing and education of their disabled children

Assistance is normally only personal support for a disabled child. However, it is also possible that the assistance refers to a small group.

severely handicapped care

In the case of individual care for the severely disabled, a carer takes over the support for disabled children who are dependent on constant help. Your child can be cared for at home at any time of the day. You decide how much help you need. The specialists will help you in the following areas:

• care of your child
• Domestic Activities
• recreation
• Care in kindergarten or school
• Support in studies and work

Home help offers support for the disabled

A household help takes on the support for disabled children and their families if the parents cannot adequately care for and care for their child due to a rehabilitation measure or medical treatment. The prerequisites for the assumption of the costs of household help are that your disabled child is dependent on help and that no other family member can continue to run the household at home. The social welfare office or private commercial care services will help you find suitable household help.

Support for disabled children by childminders

A childminder takes care of your child at home and allows you little time off. You can look for a suitable childminder privately or get help from the authorities in your city, such as the youth welfare office.