ADA Training

[Blackcat31]

Teething is NOT covered under ADA rules as a disability...although some parents seem to think it is....


But the trainer said it could be considered a disability because it effects the child's ability to eat , and IF the parent regards it as a disability and they are allowed to it would be covered.

Just about everything in the trainers opinion can be regarded as a disability as there does not need to be an actual medical diagnosis .They just have to be regarded as having an impairment.

The trainer is wrong. Its a temporary state of being.

The ADA is very specific about it. Temporary situations are NOT covered under ADA rules and there is NO discrimination if you refuse care due to a temporary situation. If it was covered under ADA rules, then we would all be caring for kid with diarrhea, vomiting and every other contagious illness kids have because ALL those things affect a childs ability to eat, sleep and/or live while they have those symptoms/illnesses.

Just because something temporary affects a person's quality of life at that particular time does NOT qualify them to be protected under ADA rules.

Permanent situations are protected not temporary illnesses.

[Play Care]

The trainer is wrong. Its a temporary state of being.

The ADA is very specific about it. Temporary situations are NOT covered under ADA rules and there is NO discrimination if you refuse care due to a temporary situation. If it was covered under ADA rules, then we would all be caring for kid with diarrhea, vomiting and every other contagious illness kids have because ALL those things affect a childs ability to eat, sleep and/or live while they have those symptoms/illnesses.

Just because something temporary affects a person's quality of life at that particular time does NOT qualify them to be protected under ADA rules.

Permanent situations are protected not temporary illnesses.

It sounds like you had a nut case trainer and I would lodge a formal complaint with licensing.
I do understand they are trying to get us to take all the kids and keep them by making it impossible to deny services. But really, she sounded ridiculous.

[Second Home]

I agree she was really out there .I have to say that in my 13 yrs of child care this was the worst training experience ever. The word spread rapidly of what went on during the ADA training that a provider in the medication class asked if any of us were there . That providers who were there went home and began calling all the providers they knew to find out what happened in the other classes .

I also had medication training this weekend and 3 people who were there were also at the ADA training . 1 provider who has only been licensed since April , she went home ready to quit because every situation ended in you can be sued.

[spedmommy4]

I agree she was really out there .I have to say that in my 13 yrs of child care this was the worst training experience ever. The word spread rapidly of what went on during the ADA training that a provider in the medication class asked if any of us were there . That providers who were there went home and began calling all the providers they knew to find out what happened in the other classes .

I also had medication training this weekend and 3 people who were there were also at the ADA training . 1 provider who has only been licensed since April , she went home ready to quit because every situation ended in you can be sued.

And that is the worst part. It makes good providers want to leave the profession. I agree with the PP. It sounds like the trainer was way out there.
I would file a complaint, if that is possible.

[spedmommy4]

Teething is NOT covered under ADA rules as a disability...although some parents seem to think it is....


But the trainer said it could be considered a disability because it effects the child's ability to eat , and IF the parent regards it as a disability and they are allowed to it would be covered.

Just about everything in the trainers opinion can be regarded as a disability as there does not need to be an actual medical diagnosis .They just have to be regarded as having an impairment.

Just wow! After she said this, I would have asked about her educational background. Teething is a disability? Now I have heard everything.