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Knowledge articlePathways & orientation
Tax relief: disability lump sum and care lump sum
What section 33b EStG provides: lump sums from a GdB of 20, transfer to parents and care lump sum by care level, with the amounts as of the legal status.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articlePathways & orientation
Understanding the support system: who is responsible for what?
Overview of bodies and benefits in Germany: care insurance fund, integration assistance, youth welfare office, health insurance, disability office and how responsibility is clarifi…
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articlePathways & orientation
Child benefit for adult children with disabilities
When child benefit is also possible after the 18th birthday: requirements for disability under section 32 para. 4 EStG, amount, application.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articlePathways & orientation
Severe disability card and degree of disability for autism
When a degree of disability is determined for autism, which guideline values apply and how the application works – explained clearly, as of 2026.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articlePathways & orientation
Participation plan and overall plan: how benefits are planned
How participation benefits are planned: right to express wishes and choose, participation plan, overall plan procedure under SGB IX and what you can decide.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleUnderstanding autism
Repetitive behaviour and special interests
What the 2021 guideline recommended for disruptive repetitive behaviour and special interests, what should not be used and which criticism it named.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleAssessment & diagnosis
Diagnosis in children: who, where, how?
How assessment in children should be structured: stepped approach, specialised service, team, involving parents and a re-check before school entry.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleParents & family
Strain and the parents’ relationship
What the 2021 guideline said on strain on parents, what it left open about the partnership and why social support counted as a protective factor.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleAdults on the spectrum
Growing older on the spectrum
Growing older on the spectrum is little researched: what studies of people aged 50 and over show on life, health and gaps in care.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleDaycare, school & education
School support workers in everyday school life: goals, role, independence
What the 2021 guideline recommended for school support workers: clear goals, limited period, regular review, promoting independence, training.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleTherapies & support
Medication in autism: possibilities and limits
According to the 2021 guideline no medicine improves the core social features. When medication can play a role for co-occurring conditions.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleUnderstanding autism
Sensory processing: experiencing perception differently
Why sounds, light or touch can be too much – or too little – for many people with autism, and what that means in everyday life.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleAssessment & diagnosis
Assessment in adulthood
Adults can also receive an autism diagnosis. How assessment works, what makes it different and how you can prepare for it.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleParents & family
Informing grandparents, friends and surroundings
What relatives and surroundings should know: orientation by the contents the 2021 guideline named for teachers and early-years educators.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleAdults on the spectrum
Becoming independent as a young adult on the spectrum: orientation
Housing, everyday life, training, authorities and exchange: orientation for young adults on the autism spectrum on the way to independence.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleDaycare, school & education
Special educational needs: place of learning, assessment and support plan (example Bavaria)
What Art. 41 BayEUG regulates on special educational needs: choice of place of learning, assessment and decision in case of disagreement. Example Bavaria.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleUnderstanding autism
Stimming: understanding self-stimulation
What stimming is, what people on the autism spectrum say it is for, what the 2021 guideline said and where stigma and harm lie.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleParents & family
Self-care for parents and relatives
What the 2021 guideline said on support for parents and relatives: help of their own, psychoeducation, advice and the value of social support.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleProfessionals & practice
Autism in nursery: notes for professionals
What early-years educators and nursery teams should know, what can burden nursery life and what the 2021 S3 guideline recommended for nursery.
Updated: 19 October 2026
Knowledge articleDaycare, school & education
Good cooperation between parents and school
What the 2021 guideline named for cooperation: training for teachers, written support plan, regular review and coordination.
Updated: 19 October 2026

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