Children with disabilities: parenting

Raising children with disabilities can present parents with unique challenges. Getting to know your community and the services that exist can help you overcome some of the barriers and challenges. Parenting a child with special needs can be very rewarding.

It is also important to have others involved in your child’s life. You may wish to register your child in a daycare. Some daycares have staff trained to help children with special needs. The daycare registry is great place to get information on daycare services, subsidies and availability in your region.

You may also want to access services from Children’s Community Network. The Children’s Community Network is a point of access for services funded by the ministry. They will offer information and referrals to programs for children and their families.

Best Start offers parents local information to help access services for your child with disabilities and also services to support you, the caregiver.

Playing with your child is important. Play allows the development of movement skills and allows the relationship between you and your child to grow. Active for life provides games to play with children and ideas to encourage play for the whole family.

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This item was last modified on July 7, 2015