Abstract
Objective:
One interest for Child Psychiatry daily practice is mentally and physical disabled children. As well as the importance of giving the appropriate psychiatric treatment for these children, a wide-range of knowledge about their social and educational rights is also necessary for guiding them properly. We aimed to evaluate and share the clinical experiences of Ege University Medical School in light of the new Health Committee Instructions for disabled children.
Methods:
The application reasons, diagnoses, diffi culties in health committee procedures, the variety of problems in these steps and solution proposals were reported along our last experiences.
Results:
In the fi rst half of 2010, 40% of all health committee report cases were referred from Child Psychiatry clinics. The most common diagnoses were mental retardation, developmental delay, pervasive developmental disorders, attention defi cit and hyperactivity disorder, learning disorders and stuttering. The most common application reasons were asking for special education reports, tax reductions, homecare-payment, educational benefi ts and to obtain some offi cial privileges like offi cial work place changes of parents.
Discussion:
For better health committee reports all child psychiatry specialists should read the offi cial instructions in detail, all the cases should be evaluated properly and the reports have to be written after completing the necessary procedures.
Keywords: Child psychiatry, disability, health committee
