[The Guidance Center. Evaluation after a year of activity]
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This child guidance clinic offers comprehensive services for children aged 2-6 with disabilities, including medical advice, therapy, and parent support. The multidisciplinary team ensures holistic care, with most children diagnosed with Down syndrome (trisomy 21) or psychosis.
Area of Science:
- Developmental Pediatrics
- Child Psychology
- Special Education
Context:
- Established a child guidance clinic at the C.H.U. of Grenoble.
- Serves children aged 2 to 6 years with developmental disabilities.
- Operates as a day hospital with a comprehensive organizational structure.
Purpose:
- To provide specialized education and therapeutic interventions for young handicapped children.
- To offer a multidisciplinary approach integrating medical, psychological, and educational support.
- To involve parents through interviews, counseling, and support groups.
Summary:
- The clinic employs a 15-member multidisciplinary team, including educators, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, and pediatricians.
- Services include medical advice, motor skill training, psychotherapy, and speech therapy (orthophony).
- Average daily attendance is 15 children, predominantly those with Down syndrome (trisomy 21) or psychosis.
Impact:
- Provides essential therapeutic and educational services for children with disabilities.
- Facilitates parental involvement and support, enhancing the child's overall care.
- Serves an educational role by training probationers from various institutions.
Abstract:
The C.H.U. of Grenoble started a child Guidance Clinic for assuming the education of handicapped children from 2 to 6 (years of age). A whole organization for medical advice, training for walk, psychotherapy, orthophony, together with a day hospital can be found there--the working of whith is provided by a pluridisciplinary team of 15 members (among whom educators, psychanalistes, psychiatristes, psychologistes, pediatristes). The parents may profit by interviews with the educators, with a conjugal adviser, or by parents groups who meet twice a month. An average of 25 children are registered, and 15 are present, among whom most are trisomic 21, or psychotics. The day price is 257 F and 100% returned by the social Security. At last, besides the therapeutic function, the clinic also plays a pedagogic part by receiving probationers coming from different places.