Originally Posted by safechner:
I know you are not posting about this child being deaf or not. I am telling you that she is because her parents dont want to tell you that she is deaf so they decided to tell you she has hearing loss instead. Truth is, I am deaf myself but I tell some people that I am hearing impairment instead. It is not a big deal, anyways!
If the parents refused let their daughter to wear hearing aids, there is nothing you can do about it. We dont know the whole story. Maybe this child dont like to wear hearing aids, who knows. The most important that she needs to learn sign language that you can help her instead her parents. As you mentioned you know sign language so you can teach her so what is your point? If the parents refused to learn sign language, shame on them. Their child will hate them later, trust me. If she starts school and they will teach her sign language. She will pick it up quickly than what you think. The parents will probably still refused to learn sign language so it wont be changed. To be honest, it is none of your business about hearing aids that she should to wear it. If my child is in your daycare and if you are trying to tell me that my daughter must wear hearing aids, I would be very mad. I wasted $1,800 on my daughter's hearing aids that we bought for her out of our pocket that our insurance was not covered at that time when she was 6 months old. My daughter HATE hearing aids and I tried to give her an opportunity to hear for two years but she was NOT interested so I leave her alone. She is very happy child and she is 12 years old. She loves her life because we are great parents to her. It doesnt matter to us anymore.
It doesnt matter what I feel offended by you or not. Like I said, I dont care what others think about me. If you feel that you cant help her or having problems with your daycare parents then let them go. I do feel about this little child. I think she would be lucky to have you that you will be able to communicate with her that you already know sign language. I guess that will never happens since you are giving them a two weeks notice tomorrow. I would take this girl for that spot and helped her parents not to be embarrassed about her hearing loss or something like that. However, I closed daycare for a while to being a stay home at mom with my handsome baby that I had him a few months ago. 
Ok so if you enrolled a child into daycare and they had a heart condition that the parents didn't tell you about at interview and you found out a few weeks later about it ... It wouldn't bother you??
What if that child was SUPPOSED to be on heart medication but because they were "embarrassed" about it, they didn't give her that middle of the day dose because they didn't want to tell you about it. But the child's heart has to have that medication at lunch every single day. You don't think you have a right to ask for her diagnosis from the doctor and insist the parents send it to daycare to be given at lunch??
Would it not be okay to talk to the parents about your need for a special needs form because the child has a severe heart problem that affects things at daycare. Suppose she isn't allowed to go out in hot weather due to her heart condition. Didn't you have a right to know that? And if you bring it up to the parents and they act all ticked off and act childish etc that's okay?
It's really not that different of a situation. We spend 50 hours a week with these children. We have a right to know about their medical conditions so that we can take adequate care of them. Does the parent have the right to refuse the heart medication?? In some states yes. In some states it's considered medical neglect. But regardless about the morality, the parents have every right to be in denial. But, as a provider who spends so much time with these kids, is it okay to just turn a blind eye to the well being of a child and put up with the possibility that something bad could happen because the parents were "embarrassed and in denial"??
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
If I interview and there are ANY medical or any other Type of concern, I require documentation of any and everything. I explain why. Which is because I do e very best I can to take the absolute best care I can for that child. And that means physically, developmentally, socially, morally and any other way. I take pride in the care I give these children. I have a right to know if they have hearing loss, are deaf, have a cardiac problem, asthma, food allergies etc.
And if a parent lies to me about it, it's grounds for immediate termination because it puts that child in jeopardy. Maybe not physically in jeopardy but I take all aspects of the child's development seriously.