Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Babysitting a Child of Learning Disability

Some children have learning disability. It is difficult to handle such children in babysitting and nanny care. Also the parents feel it hard to find a babysitter to look after those children. Communication is the most important thing for the parents and babysitters. Each child is unique and so the set of requirements for babysitting varies based on the child. Many babysitters also get afraid to take care of those type of children.

Parents must explain the babysitter about the learning disability of the child. The babysitter must know it form the parents that which is the thing that makes the child different from others. The babysitter must talk to the child in a certain pace and maintain eye contact. The child should be explained about certain things that a babysitter does which makes the life easy.

Some parents may not get traditional babysitters for those children. Some respite services are available that provide babysitters for children with learning disability.

The babysitter may come to home before starting her job and learn something about the child. She should learn about the disability in some part of time. The other part of time can be spent by playing with the child or learning some skills.

The parents can be asked something about the child such as to what extent the child could remember something. Those worked as a teacher earlier, can easily handle such children. The child should be taught slowly so that they could understand it. Then he should be asked to explain in his own words about what he understood. This would make the child think for some time and express in his words. Gradually they will improve in learning.

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