Day care dilemma: Few facilities can handle kids with disabilities
February 26th, 2008From the Appleton [Wisconsin] Post-Crescent:
In a nation reliant on child care, parents of children with disabilities find that services appropriate to their children’s needs are almost nonexistent. Parents are left with a frightening dilemma: tolerate unacceptable day care or quit working and weather financial hardship.
“It is a huge problem around the country,” said Linda Smith, executive director of the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. “And we are putting children at risk.”
But the problem goes largely unmonitored and exists mostly outside the public consciousness, mostly because nobody collects data specific to child care for disabled kids, said Jeff Spitzer-Resnick, an attorney with Disability Rights Wisconsin.
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