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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 452928" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>The "several hours" break respite care is essentially highly skilled child-care - people who know how to care for special needs kids like yours. Either they come into your home, or you take the kids to them.</p><p>Longer-term respite (a week or more) would be like a foster-home or care-home environment - again, people with training in how to deal with these kinds of kids.</p><p></p><p>These would not be your typical teenage babysitters!</p><p>Not even typical day-care staff.</p><p></p><p>Probably some medical training, at least. Quite expensive, which is why you want the system to pay for it.</p><p>Usually, the system doesn't mind paying for respite... because the alternative is that you turn over the kids full time (due to your own health being affected, for example), and that costs way more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 452928, member: 11791"] The "several hours" break respite care is essentially highly skilled child-care - people who know how to care for special needs kids like yours. Either they come into your home, or you take the kids to them. Longer-term respite (a week or more) would be like a foster-home or care-home environment - again, people with training in how to deal with these kinds of kids. These would not be your typical teenage babysitters! Not even typical day-care staff. Probably some medical training, at least. Quite expensive, which is why you want the system to pay for it. Usually, the system doesn't mind paying for respite... because the alternative is that you turn over the kids full time (due to your own health being affected, for example), and that costs way more. [/QUOTE]
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