What are the basic requirements of the ADA for child care centers?
Child care providers may not discriminate against persons with disabilities. They must provide children and parents with disabilities with an equal opportunity to participate in their programs and services. • Centers and providers cannot exclude children with disabilities from their programs unless their presence would pose a direct threat to the health or safety of others or require a fundamental alteration of their program. • Centers and providers must make reasonable modifications to their policies and practices to include children, parents, and guardians with disabilities in their programs unless doing so would be a fundamental alteration of their program. • Centers and providers must provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services needed for effective communication with children or adults with disabilities, unless doing so would be an undue burden (significant difficulty or expense, relative to the childcare provider’s resources or the resources of the “parent” company.) • Centers
