Mobile early intervention
Early intervention in the Northeim district is a free service for families whose children need special support in their development for various reasons. It aims to start as early as possible to maximize the chances for appropriate child development. Early intervention provides individualized support that helps to develop and enhance each child’s strengths and abilities. This support is holistic and playful, and is based on each child’s stage of development, personality, and needs and opportunities. The family situation and the various life circumstances are also taken into account. Close cooperation with pedagogical, therapeutic and medical specialists is an important part of early intervention to ensure optimal support for the child.
Your contact
Peter Meyer
Phone: +49 5561 / 7571-720
Fax: +49 5561 / 7571-719
E-Mail: p.meyer@ptz-einbeck.de
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Children
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Employees
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Age range
Opening hours
Please arrange the funding appointments individually with us by phone.
General conditions
and services
Early intervention is aimed at children from infancy to school entry, including those who attend a regular kindergarten or have been deferred. Various causes can lead to children needing special support, such as developmental delays, premature birth, serious operations, serious illnesses or unusual family situations.
Early intervention is mainly mobile in the children’s familiar environment, but can also take place in kindergarten or in small groups. The support is based on the children’s individual abilities and activities and aims to promote all areas of development. The overall situation of the family and its social relations are taken into account.
Cooperation with parents is an integral part of early intervention. The specialists offer advice and practical support, point out possibilities for independent promotion and support of the children and help to arrange further examinations and therapeutic measures. Parents have the option of releasing the confidentiality obligation in order to establish contact with other persons.
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Who receives early intervention?
Our support services are aimed at children from infancy until they start school.
Children who attend a regular kindergarten or are deferred from school and go to school kindergarten can also receive early intervention.
A wide variety of reasons can be the reason why children need special support and assistance:
For example, children may be at risk in their development,
- because they have or are suspected of having developmental delays
- because they were born too early
- because a serious operation was necessary
- because they suffer from a serious illness
- because they live in unusual family situations, e.g. hearing children of deaf parents.
Children can be delayed or conspicuous in their development. This means that the development of the children in one or more developmental areas is recognizably delayed or clearly different from that of children of the same age for the parents and also professionals.
Children may be at risk of disability because their delays or abnormalities in one or more areas of development may result in further difficulties and problems in other areas of development.
Children may be disabled because they have a physical, mental or emotional impairment or have been diagnosed with a sensory impairment.
How does early intervention work?
We work mainly on a mobile basis, which means that we support the children individually in their familiar home environment. With the approval of the funding agency, we can also support the children in the kindergarten. Small group support could also be offered in our support rooms under certain conditions. We build playfully on the children’s existing abilities and the activities they engage in.
Our professionally experienced specialists individually promote all developmental areas of the children and also take into account the overall situation of the family and their social relations.
Early intervention always includes cooperation with the parents.
We accompany the families in an advisory capacity with regard to the development and problems of their children and offer practical guidance and support.
We show the families possibilities and help to promote and support the development of their child themselves.
We advise parents who make use of our mobile early intervention services for their children and offer them our assistance, e.g. in the following areas
- arranging further specialist and psychological examinations
- any additional therapeutic measures that may be required
- Dealing with institutions and authorities
- Assistance measures (e.g. application for care allowance or a disability certificate)
We may only contact other persons with the express release from the obligation to maintain confidentiality.
About us
The team and funding
Our team consists of experienced curative education specialists, including curative educators or curative education nurses, educators with many years of experience in supporting impaired children and various additional qualifications, social pedagogues and graduate pedagogues. All members of our team have extensive professional experience.
Mobile Early Intervention is financed by the district of Northeim after application, based on the provisions of §§ 113 and 79 SGB IX as well as § 99 SGB IX and §§ 1 to 3 of the EHV-VO. As an early intervention center, we are authorized to offer curative education services for children who have not yet started school. The aim of these services is to ensure that the children can successfully participate in social life.
In concrete terms, this means that early intervention is free of charge for parents.
