Coronavirus: with containment, manage the return of disabled children at home
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By: Nicolas Rocca
For just under 300,000 people, confinement is more complex than for other households. These are the families who receive an allowance to raise their disabled child. How to continue to educate your child back home for three weeks now when he has a daily need for attention from professionals? How the main concerned face this situation. Report.
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The lack of care coupled with the absence of outings: two factors which particularly affect the mentally handicapped. The government waited more than two weeks before issuing a specific exit certificate for the disabled on April 2.
A late and necessary decision according to Aurore Duhamel, educator in an EMP Externat medico-pedagogic in the north of Paris.
In all, nearly 65,000 disabled children have had to return home since mid-March. Julien is one of them, he is an external in the EMP of Aurore Duhamel who is her educator. Agnès Ducher, the mother of the young adolescent, explains the consequences of confinement on her child…
To limit his crises, and keep Julien busy, his teacher has set up special exercises ...
The government has announced respite solutions for families: home day care or temporary accommodation for people with disabilities for periods of one to two weeks. Measures necessary if the containment is to be prolonged.
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