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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a child with a disability such that he had both legs in casts for 10 weeks starting when he was 20 months old. After the casting, he had PT to learn how to walk again and do stairs, jump etc.  When discussing accommodations with his daycare, we agreed that he could not be moved to the 2 YO classroom (upstairs) until he mastered going up and down stairs.  The ratio for teachers to students did not support one on one with him as they went up and down multiple times a day.   We agreed that a reasonable accommodation was to keep him in the younger classroom downstairs.

For our daycare, infants were in one space - but toddlers were in a different room.

are you saying that in your daycare they are keeping a 2 year old with 8 week olds?

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No They want to keep her with the toddlers.  There are two birthdays in December, hers is in a few weeks and the youngest is about 16 months.  So it's not a huge difference but at some point we need to move her up to the 2 year old room before she will be able to go up and down the stairs.  I assume that will be another 6-12 months.[/quote]

So right now she is ~23 months old and is in a daycare room with children 16 months - 23 months.  She can't walk independently, can walk upstairs holding hands but needs to be carried down stairs and you think based on feedback from a medical professional that it might be 6 - 12 months before she is able to do stairs independently.

In my experience with moving classrooms with daycares, there was a range for when a child was moved.   The biggest factor - ratios and when children left the daycare from the oldest classroom.  It was not uncommon that a child would be in the 2 year old until almost 3 because the 4 year old class did not move any kids until the end of the school year - which meant the 3 YO class did not move etc.    If this is the case for your daycare, I would wait and see where things are in a few months - as well as where walking independently is.   A lot can change in 3 months- but you know your child's developmental challenges best.

You might want to work with an placement through the county as based on how you explained the developmental delay, this is a situation that might benefit from more intensive physical therapy that what you can get through the daycare.

Good luck.[/quote]

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