More money for doing OT and development?

[itsallgrand]

It honestly sounds like you would be doing the work of a support aide. And it sounds like this child needs a full time support worker.
However, that's not your job. Your job is general care for all the children in your daycare. This might ruffle feathers, but , I would reconsider doing this as it will impact your staff and the other children ( one staff to four, instead of 2 to 5 ratio).

[Cherylyn]

Keep in mind, if you're in occupational therapy mode when you're not a licensed occupational therapist, you are liable should this child's care go awry. Think about your legal repercussions.

[Butterfly~Wrists]

Do you have insurance for special needs kids? How will this impact your business financially, eg training, extra hours to learn how to care for the child, changes in insurance and staff?

[~Seraphim ~]

I have daycare insurance that I pay $1000 a year for. The agent didn’t ask specifically about special needs children. They are more concerned with pools, dogs ,highways that kind of thing. Whether a child has had an accident in your home if you’ve been charged with child abuse ... etc.

Do you have insurance for special needs kids? How will this impact your business financially, eg training, extra hours to learn how to care for the child, changes in insurance and staff?

[~Seraphim ~]

It won’t be totally up to me. There will be a team of people responsible for her care . I have daycare insurance.

Keep in mind, if you're in occupational therapy mode when you're not a licensed occupational therapist, you are liable should this child's care go awry. Think about your legal repercussions.

[~Seraphim ~]

True, it would be a change for everyone. Ratio for unlicensed is 5:1 . Five kids to one caregiver .

It honestly sounds like you would be doing the work of a support aide. And it sounds like this child needs a full time support worker.
However, that's not your job. Your job is general care for all the children in your daycare. This might ruffle feathers, but , I would reconsider doing this as it will impact your staff and the other children ( one staff to four, instead of 2 to 5 ratio).

[Cherylyn]

It won’t be totally up to me. There will be a team of people responsible for her care . I have daycare insurance.

Find out what the going rate for special circumstances are. Have competitive, fair prices and you should be ok.

[abitbroken]

We actually don’t want them doing anything for her she hast to learn to do things herself . The only independent skills she has are crawling which she’s only learned in the past two months and feeding her self the more they do for her the less she’s going to learn . If they left her alone that would be great .

That would be tough. Little kids show concern for one another and to get them to not interact with her will be tough unless they are all babies

[~Seraphim ~]

They do interact with her I just don’t want them running toys to her or babying her because her mom already babys the snot out of her. She is a toddler and she treats her like a fragile newborn. The fact is this child is so behind the developmental worker who has been doing this for 30 years said it is tragic how behind she is. I knew that already but mom is in severe denial until other people were on her case. And she had to give written consent for me to take her to the developmental worker.

Interacting is fine doing things for her , no. But it takes a long time to teach kids that nuance .

That would be tough. Little kids show concern for one another and to get them to not interact with her will be tough unless they are all babies