Standards for Establishing Children and Youth Welfare Institutes Article 17

In addition to employing a full-time supervisor to engage in the institute’s business, early intervention institutes shall also have the following working personnel:1. Social workers,2. Early intervention educators and assistant educators,3. Intervention professional personnel,4. Administrators and other personnel.The intervention professional personnel stated in subparagraph 3 of the preceding paragraph refers to specially contracted education teachers, occupational therapists, physical therapists, psychologists, linguistic therapists, orientation action training personnel, doctors and nursing personnel, etc.The personnel stated in subparagraphs 1 and 2 of Paragraph 1 shall be full-time; the ones stated in subparagraph 3 may be full-time or specially contracted. For those institutes that receive more than 30 children, there shall be at least one full-time member personnel employed.One social worker as stipulated in subparagraph 1 of Paragraph 1 shall be hired for every 30 children received. For a number under 30, it shall still be counted as 30.The educational and care personnel and assistant educational personnel for early intervention, or the professional personnel stipulated in subparagraphs 2 and 3 of Paragraph 1 shall be established in accordance with the following stipulations.:1. Daytime intervention: One educational and care personnel and assistant educational personnel for early intervention or intervention professional person shall be employed for every five children received. For a number under five, it shall still be counted as five.2. Part-time intervention: Based on one to one individual intervention as the principle, the ratio shall not be beyond one to three at the most. In terms of educational and care personnel and assistant educational personnel for early intervention or professional personnel against those who are served, the service number shall not exceed 25 people per week for each member of the personnel.The number of assistant educational personnel for early intervention stated in the preceding paragraph shall not exceed the number of educational personnel for early intervention.
中文原文 兒童及少年福利機構設置標準第17條
早期療育機構應置專任主管人員一人,綜理機構業務,並置下列工作人員:
一、社會工作人員。
二、早期療育教保人員、早期療育助理教保人員。
三、療育專業人員。
四、行政人員或其他工作人員。
前項第三款所稱療育專業人員,指特殊教育老師、職能治療師、物理治療師、心理師、語言治療人員、定向行動訓練人員、醫師及護理人員等。
第一項第一款及第二款所定人員應為專任;第三款人員得以專任或特約方式辦理。
收托三十名以上兒童之機構,第四款人員至少應置專任人員一人。
第一項第一款所定社會工作人員,每收托三十名兒童應置一人,未滿三十人者,以三十人計。
第一項第二款、第三款所定早期療育教保人員、早期療育助理教保人員或療育專業人員應依下列規定配置:
一、日間療育:每收托五名兒童應置早期療育教保人員、早期療育助理教保人員或療育專業人員一人,未滿五人者,以五人計。
二、時段療育:以一對一之個別療育為原則,最高不得超過一對三,早期療育教保人員、早期療育助理教保人員或療育專業人員與受服務者比例,每人每週服務量不得超過二十五人。
前項之早期療育助理教保人員數不得超過早期療育教保人員數。

English translation for reference only; the Chinese text prevails. Not legal advice.