Chapter 2 Establishment standards
Section 2 Early intervention institutes
Article 13
Early intervention institutes shall target families to offer the following services to children and their parents, guardians or the people who actually take care of them:
1. Early intervention
2. Life self-care training and social adaptation.
3. Parental education and support of family function.
4. Consultation, such as reporting, referral and transition.
5. Others that may benefit children’s wholesome development.
Article 14
There are the following two service types for early intervention institutes:
1. Daytime intervention: To offer developmentally challenged children half-day, daytime or full-day intervention and care.
2. Part-time intervention: To offer children with developmental delay part-time intervention and care.
The institutes stated in the preceding paragraph can be merged, and per the request of the children’s parents, guardians or the ones who actually take care of them, professional personnel shall be sent to provide home intervention services.
Article 15
Except as otherwise stipulated, early intervention institutes shall have the following facilities:
1. Office
2. Clinic
3. Activity room
4. Interview room
5. Training room
6. Meeting room
7. Restroom sanitary facilities
8. Kitchen
9. Sleeping room
10. Other necessary facilities related to the services.
The facilities stipulated in subparagraphs 1, 2, 4, 3 and 9 of the preceding paragraph shall be adjusted or combined as needed.
The facilities stipulated in subparagraphs 8 and 9 of Paragraph 1 may be installed as needed by the institutes that engage in part-time intervention.
Article 16
The indoor floor space, excluding the space which is not used for children’s major activities, such as offices, kitchen, storeroom, fire prevention space, stairways, balcony, statutory parking spaces, arcade, etc. shall meet the following stipulations:
1. For daytime intervention service: The space shall not be less than 100 square meters for children’s major activities. The room floor space shall not be less than 6.6 square meters per person.
2. For part-time intervention service: The space shall not be less than 75 square meters.
The space to be used for receiving children in early intervention institutes is limited to the first, second and third floor.
Article 17
In addition to employing a full-time supervisor to engage in the institute’s business, early intervention institutes shall also have the following working personnel:
1. Social workers,
2. Early intervention educators and assistant educators,
3. Intervention professional personnel,
4. Administrators and other personnel.
The intervention professional personnel stated in subparagraph 3 of the preceding paragraph refers to specially contracted education teachers, occupational therapists, physical therapists, psychologists, linguistic therapists, orientation action training personnel, doctors and nursing personnel, etc.
The personnel stated in subparagraphs 1 and 2 of Paragraph 1 shall be full-time; the ones stated in subparagraph 3 may be full-time or specially contracted. For those institutes that receive more than 30 children, there shall be at least one full-time member personnel employed.
One social worker as stipulated in subparagraph 1 of Paragraph 1 shall be hired for every 30 children received. For a number under 30, it shall still be counted as 30.
The educational and care personnel and assistant educational personnel for early intervention, or the professional personnel stipulated in subparagraphs 2 and 3 of Paragraph 1 shall be established in accordance with the following stipulations.:
1. Daytime intervention: One educational and care personnel and assistant educational personnel for early intervention or intervention professional person shall be employed for every five children received. For a number under five, it shall still be counted as five.
2. Part-time intervention: Based on one to one individual intervention as the principle, the ratio shall not be beyond one to three at the most. In terms of educational and care personnel and assistant educational personnel for early intervention or professional personnel against those who are served, the service number shall not exceed 25 people per week for each member of the personnel.
The number of assistant educational personnel for early intervention stated in the preceding paragraph shall not exceed the number of educational personnel for early intervention.