Persönliche Assistenz für Kinder mit Behinderungen

The participation opportunities of children with disabilities are rarely discussed. More often, social participation is linked to vocational and professional rehabilitation and therefore, mostly focused on the participation of adults with disabilities in the world of employment.

By contrast, this book deals with the participation of children with disabilities and specifically, with personal assistance as an individual support service. In recent years, it has entered the social discussion in the context of school inclusion. However, the need for personal assistance on the part of children with disabilities goes beyond the school context.

For this reason, the book initially explains what personal assistance is and which needs on the part of children with disabilities may exist in which areas of life. The work systematises whether and how these needs may be covered by regulations of the German legal system (e.g. by means of the law on rehabilitation and integration of people with disabilities, social law or school law) and which legal and/or actual limits children may encounter as assistants.

The fundamental changes for the law on rehabilitation and integration and the assistance service are discussed and evaluated.