[Early stimulation and parent guidance in genetically-induced developmental disorders--guidelines and...

When genetically based impairments cannot be prevented by early-enough genetic counselling, parent guidance and early services are urgently needed. Understanding the parents' psychoemotional situation, tactfulness, and easily understood language are important premises in such counselling. For early provision of services to be effective, close cooperation needs to be ensured between physicians, therapists, educators and social workers. Their common objective is to reduce the extent of disability as much as possible, and to achieve conditions conducive to integration. In progressive conditions, the aim is to put off the onset of complete helplessness and to maintain the child's quality of life at as high a level as possible.