A child from the age of 91 days to 3 years, who is suffering from a severe developmental delay.
He does not perform most of the actions and motions with his head, limbs and back that most children of his age are able to perform.
A child from the age of 91 days to 18 years, who requires constant supervision.
There is a clear and present danger to his life and he requires constant close supervision by his caregiver to prevent danger to himself or to those around him.
A child from 3 to 18 years, who is far more dependent on the help of others than other children his age.
A child who requires assistance to perform routine activities to a far greater extent than do other children his age. Routine activities are: dressing, eating, bathing, mobility in the home and control of bodily functions. The need for the constant presence of another person due to the child’s disability from disease, or his inability to understand immediate hazards, will also be examined.
A child with a special disability.
This group includes children with the following disabilities:
Hearing loss (from birth to the age of 18);
A hearing loss of at least 45 decibels in speech frequencies in each ear, without correction;
Vision loss (from 91 days to the age of 18);
Vision of less than 60/3 in each eye or a field of vision of less than 20° in each eye, without correction;
Psychosis, autism or similar conditions (from 91 days to the age of 18);
Down's syndrome (from birth to the age of 18).
A child from the age of 91 days to 18 years who requires special medical treatment.
A child who is receiving medical treatments for a serious chronic illness, at a frequency determined in the regulations.
List of treatments and their frequencies:
1. A child who requires an IV infusion of one of the following, at least once a month: blood, blood products, blood substitutes, antibiotics;
2. A child who is undergoing regular dialysis treatments or who requires regular bladder catheterization (at least twice a day);
3. A child who is receiving regular daily immunosuppressive treatments after an organ or bone marrow transplant, for a period that may not exceed one year from the date of the transplant;
4. A child who requires an IV infusion of cytotoxic preparations at least once a month, or who is undergoing ionizing radiation treatments before or after the surgical excision of a malignant growth, throughout the treatment period and for 6 months thereafter, and during the period in which the child suffers from a constant and severe secondary illness stemming from the above treatment;
5. A child who requires intravenous feeding or feeding via nasogastric feeding tube, or whose feeding takes at least one hour each time, all due to a severe physical impairment;
6. A child receiving treatment with oxygen during most hours of the day, or who has a tracheostomy;
7. A child who regularly requires three of the following, for at least 6 months:
a. Treatment with inhalers or aspirators (at least twice a day);
b. Daily treatment with antibiotics, cardiac pressors or diuretics, anti-seizure medications or immunosuppressants;
c. Daily physiotherapy due to a physical impairment, as prescribed by a doctor;
d. Follow-up by a specialist (a subspecialty appropriate to the child's chronic illness) at least once during the above period;
e. Hospitalization due to a physical impairment, except for emergency room treatment. In this context, “hospitalization” means at least 30 days during the 6 months that preceded submission of the claim and during every 6 months thereafter;
f. Changing bandages and local treatment at least twice a day or use of a pressure suit, when the injured area is at least one fifth of the area of the body;
g. Constant supervision.
8. A child who requires treatment and supervision because of pathological bone fractures or severe chronic bone infections, for which physiotherapy or other rehabilitative therapy is prohibited;
9. A child who, according to a doctor’s instructions, requires blood tests that cannot be performed at home, at least once a week for at least 6 months;
10. A child who has been deemed - by the director of medical services in an institution or a senior pediatrician appointed for that purpose by the director - to require special treatment due to a rare and severe illness or syndrome (one case in 100,000) which creates an extremely heavy burden on his family.