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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I just add the obvious, which is that this doesn’t apply when non disabled kids are waiting for the accessible swing? I have had parents come over to demand a turn for their kid on what is literally the only piece of equipment he can use, and there are other swings, slides, and climbing equipment available.

And before someone asks, the other parent watched me lift my kid out of his wheelchair into the swing, so they didn’t miss the fact there was a disability.[/quote]

No, it absolutely does not apply to you or your child.  Tell the parent “no”.  That equipment is not for their kid. [/quote]

+2 [/quote]

+100 not only do you not have to cede the swing to a non disabled kid, but if my kid is using that accessible swing they are expected to give it up the very MOMENT a disabled child wants to use it, whether they've been on it 10 minutes or 10 seconds. [/quote]

This, this and more this.[/quote]

I'm the parent who started this conversation.

I do think that waiting his turn is an appropriate thing for my kid to do.  I don't need your kid to jump off.  In fact seeing other kids using the same equipment is something my kid likes.  All I ask is that when my kid gets on, that they get a longer turn.

And yes, of course, if there's another kid who needs the swing too, then they take turns, although usually longer turns just because the process of getting kids out of chairs and transferred to the swing is time consuming, and can be uncomfortable for both my kid, and my own back.  I'd probably talk to the other kid or their adult and figure out what works for the two individual kids and families.  [/quote]

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