Benjamin Peter (correspondent in Toulouse), edited by Gauthier Delomez / Photo credits: AFP
A national disability conference is to be held this Wednesday at the Élysée to discuss in particular the early diagnosis of dys disorders, which would concern one child per class on average. If these disorders are often misunderstood and mismanaged in France, in Toulouse, an association has tackled the problem head on.
“Dys” disorders, such as dyslexia or dyscalculia, as well as behavioral disorders, concern one child per class on average in France. And the latter are often badly accompanied. While a national conference on disability is taking place this Wednesday at the Élysée, Europe 1 went to Toulouse, in Haute-Garonne, where an experiment in a place bringing together trained professionals makes it possible to accelerate the diagnosis and therefore the supported.
The child “is framed, managed”
“We had been wandering for three or four years and we were told “education problem” and “badly brought up child”, reports Isabelle, the mother of a young boy named Perceval and aged 10. This mother found professionals trained in behavioral disorders who diagnosed her child with ADHD, an attention disorder with hyperactivity. They were able to offer him appropriate care. “The behavioral disorder is there , but it is framed, it is managed”, she relates to the microphone of Europe 1. “He is starting to make friends. It was something that before was just not possible.”
In Toulouse, Thiebault-Noel Willig, the president of Occitadys – an association specialized and intended for professionals, created Éventail 31, a place which brings together 23 liberal professionals and which ensures that check-ups and care are taken care of by Health Insurance, while the bill can sometimes climb to 1,500 or 2,000 euros for families. “The revolution we launched was to say ‘families must have access to the balance sheets without spending on their part'”, he explains, stressing that this made it possible to save “time in the diagnosis ” and to avoid “psychological suffering”.
This place offers a one-stop shop to identify these behavioral disorders from an early age. Éventail 31 sees 850 children a year and tries to catch up on the backlog accumulated over the years in terms of diagnosing these disorders. The experience will be evaluated at the end of the year and the system, if successful, could be generalized in most departments.
2023-04-26 04:14:15
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