Training Family Day Care Providers to Work with Special Needs Children

Child Care for Children with Special Needs

Children with special health care needs.

Child care for children with special needs.

Some of the ways child care programs are required to ensure equal access include: eliminating or modifying eligibility criteria which discriminate simply on the basis of disability; removing physical barriers; making reasonable modifications in policies, practices or procedures; and providing auxiliary aids and services to ensure effective communication. Higher insurance premiums for the child ...

Evidence for family-centered care for children with special health care needs: a systematic review.

OBJECTIVE Family-centered care (FCC) has received widespread endorsement for use in care in the United States. In this study, we conducted a systematic review of evidence for FCC focusing specifically on family-provider partnership as the activity that constitutes FCC. METHODS We found and reviewed articles from the medical, nursing, psychology, and sociology literature spanning 1986 to 2010....

Transition care for children with special health care needs.

BACKGROUND Approximately 750,000 children in the United States with special health care needs will transition from pediatric to adult care annually. Fewer than half receive adequate transition care. METHODS We had conversations with key informants representing clinicians who provide transition care, pediatric and adult providers of services for individuals with special health care needs, poli...