Early Care for children from 0 to 6 years old It becomes the first and most important link in a chain that aims at the optimal evolution of the child with developmental problems or at risk of suffering them.
Child development during the first years of life is subject to various interactions with the natural and social environment. This sociocultural environment provides the child with a series of experiences that will exert a decisive influence on his or her near future, progressively acquiring important functions at the motor, cognitive, linguistic and social levels.
Children receive a natural stimulation that is usually sufficient to guarantee adequate integral development. However, they are not always provided with the necessary experiences for their maximum potential development. It is then that Early Care takes on its broadest functionality, becoming no longer an advisable technique, but essential.
What is early care?
We understand by Early attention:
"the set of interventions, aimed at children aged 0-6 years, the family and the environment, which aim to respond as soon as possible to the temporary or permanent needs of children with developmental disorders or that have the risk of suffering them ".
What is a developmental disorder?
He developmental disorder it is the significant deviation from the “course” of development, as a consequence of health or relationship events that compromise the biological, psychological and social evolution of the child.
For these children with developmental delays, Early Care programs are not only necessary, but an inalienable right. It involves starting an intervention from the moment of birth or from the moment the deficit is detected.
Children with transitory or permanent needs caused by developmental disorders are included, such as:
- Motor development disorders
- Cognitive Developmental Disorders
- Disorders in sensory development
- Language development disorders
- Generalized Developmental Disorders
- Behavioral disorders
- Emotional disorders
- Disorder in the development of anatomical expression
- Evolutionary delays
What treatments are performed in Early Care?
The intervention treatments They are very varied, among which we can highlight the following:
- stimulation
- physiotherapy
- speech therapy
- psychomotor skills
- psychopedagogical support
- psychotherapy
How can you access Early Care?
Children can arrive by referring different services, such as sanitary ware (hospitals, Primary Care Centers, Mental Health Centers ...), educational (Early Care Teams, Educational Guidance and Psycho-Pedagogical Teams ...), social (Basic Centers, Municipal Social Services ...) and of course, of their own family initiative If you have any questions about your child's development.
However, it is necessary to know that there are a number of necessary requirements in order to access the services offered by an Early Care Center. These requirements are:
- Be between the ages of 0 and 6 or until the beginning of their schooling in the compulsory elementary stage
- Present temporary or permanent special needs caused by deficiencies or developmental disorders
- Have the relevant assessment and accreditation issued by public health, educational or social services, authorized and recognized for that purpose, which determine the need for treatment at the Early Care Center
- Not receive the same type of treatment at another Center or Public Service
What role do parents have in Early Care?
In Early Care, the family is the main resource to respond to their own needs. The support to families that have among their members a son or daughter with special needs or who will face the birth of a child with some alteration in their development (and the changes that in their family system causes), is always done by giving All kinds of information, help or guidance.
Conclusion
If having any type of disability at any age is a drama, it will be much greater if they occur at the beginning of development, since at these ages developmental alterations have a great neurological, psychological and sensory complexity.
Early Care begins as soon as possible in the sense of avoiding secondary disabilities, and providing satisfactory changes in the habilitation processes at all levels (prevention). Thus, all children in need of attention receive help in their deficit area (attention). The attention made from the Center always facilitates the transition from the family to education and to autonomous social life (integration).
For all this, Early Care for children from 0 to 6 years old It is a very important first step for our children to strengthen their skills in order to achieve optimal progress in all areas of development that are altered.
