Disability: reimbursement for speech therapy sessions in schools

A memorandum of understanding between speech-language pathologists' representatives and the health insurance provides for the care of acts performed by liberal speech-language pathologists in schools or in places of reception for the disabled children they attend (or in a place of training for adults with disabilities) subject to compliance with certain conditions:

• the speech therapist must first carry out a speech therapy evaluation of the child and draw up a therapeutic plan highlighting the usefulness of the intervention at this site;
• the child for whom care is provided must have been administratively recognized as having a disability at a rate equal to or higher than 50% ;
• the child should not already be receiving speech therapy in a health or social care setting.

The National Convention on the Relationship between Speech-Language Pathologists and Health Insurance signed on 31 October 1996, concerning speech-language pathologists who practice under the Convention on a liberal basis and who have chosen to practice under the Convention, has hitherto applied only to fee-for-service care provided in the office, at the patient's home and, where appropriate, in the care facilities.