Integrated Home Care
The integrated home assistance service consists of interventions to be provided to citizens in order to favor permanence in their living environment, avoiding institutionalization and hospitalization and allowing them a satisfactory relationship life through a complex of social and welfare services and health.
TYPE
The service provides socio-educational support for people with disabilities, aimed at ensuring the right to study through forms of assistance such as to facilitate communication, socialization, scholastic integration and integration, learning and the development of individual residual potential. The service must aim to ensure continuity between the different levels of school with personalized educational paths integrated with other local services. This service does not concern nor can it replace the didactic function, which the law entrusts to educational institutions through the use of support teachers, nor the material or basic assistance, which is always carried out by educational institutions.
PERFORMANCE
The services are aimed at disabled people attending schools and provide for a series of activities aimed at promoting the personal autonomy of the students in order to avoid the risk of isolation or marginalization.
In particular, the activities foreseen by the service are:
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Socio-educational support activities;
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School transport activities;
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Activities aimed at the purchase/equipment of technical equipment and specialized teaching aids.
ORGANIZATION
Within the Working Groups envisaged by Law 104/92 and subsequent legislation, the abilities and difficulties of the disabled pupil are taken into consideration, in order to arrive at the formulation of the PEI (Individualized Education Plan), in which also specify any need for specialist assistance, to be requested from the local authorities. It is appropriate that these requests take place within the framework of the territorial program agreements envisaged by art. 13 of Law 104/92, in order to improve the coordinated programming of interventions.
PERSONAL
This type of service requires personnel with specific training on social welfare and personal assistance issues or a social health worker, more commonly called O.S.S..
Furthermore, it is also possible to have a figure with specific training in laboratory, recreational and socio-cultural animation activities.