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mightmom13
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First official talk with daycare - suggestions
mightmom13
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DD has become an almost everyday biter in her toddlers room (1yr - 30 months) and though I have shared a little with her teachers I think it's time to let them know about her issues and therapies so they can better understand. Her SLP is also wanting to observe her there; it is at a church and everyone is great so I am not worried about her getting kicked out after the discussion or anything but do not know where to start. Suggestions please?!
She has SPD, suggested OCD, still questioning the existance or not of ASD, and delays everywhere except cognitive at this point. It seems like a lot to try and explain but saying that she is a SN kid or has SN seems too broad as well.
I may be overthinking this.
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Re: First official talk with daycare - suggestions
You need to tell them everything you are doing for your DD. You can provide evaluations and share about current therapies and any other documents. You can share strategies that you learned to help your DD. The only thing that you will find is that a lot of the daycare teachers and aides are not trained to care for all special needs children.
In my experience, DS was the everyday biter like your DD. We have been to as many as 4 daycares in 4 years. I was open with all the daycares about DS getting therapies.
DS was kicked out of 2 daycares due to biting. One of them only lasting a week.
The last daycare had trouble with the same issues and as much as I was trying to help that daycare with DS it was not enough. It got to the point where they were sending him home almost everyday even after I added more therapy to help DS.
We actually left that one because I was so frustrated with them and found a daycare (the 5th one) that actually had special needs trained teachers and staff.
Luckily one of her room teachers shared that she was a special needs teacher for 5 years before coming to this daycare. DD has been at this daycare for about 6 months now with the ocassional bite - but has recently picked up the past month. No threats have been made and everyone is still really friendly so hoping when I say I know something is going on they will work to help DD.
I think she doesn't know how to tell the other kids to stay away (she is a loner) and she doesn't know how to take turns so she just bites/hits.
Thank you for the info!
I had to increase therapy by 4 hours (2 hours for speech and 2 hours for aba) and the biting has reduced greatly. DS was biting as a form of communication.
Her SLP wants to see her at school because they said she doesn't talk or sign there and we found out today that she has a good vocab per her word count today she just doesn't process right even though her SLP thinks she is a high function kiddo. I had to laugh when she said something about "keep checking her comprehension throughout the years" because DD is my clone (even with some of her sensory stuff) and my mom has always said "your reading comprehension scores have never been great." lol
So yeah - we just have to figure DD out some more - she started the Alex and Leah Signing Times (we did the Baby Singing Times) and it is helping some more, hopefully she will pick up more signs/wanting to communicate. I push her at home but daycare is different.