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**MomToTwoBoys** · 01-09-2012, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by Telephus44

My son has autism, and we did have him in daycare when he was younger. We had better luck with a home daycare - the woman who watched him had training for early education and special education. She also had a son and wanted to stay home but needed the money, so she watched a few other children. It was an easier setting for him, and it was easier for her to deal with our son if something happened rather than a daycare center where a teacher has a lot more kids to keep track of.

In our state, they require home daycares to register with the state, so we were able to just get a list of the ones registered in our area and then we went and "interviewed" them. Not sure if there's a central listing or not where you live.

There is a listing on the Government of Alberta's website that lists all of the daycares in the city. It also lists if it's accredited or otherwise, and it separates daycares from day homes. I would really love to put him in something smaller like he had before I pulled him out of North Carolina when he was younger. When I had him in a day care, he got sick all of the time and well, he didn't get sick in the day home.

Here, you don't necessarily have to be accredited but you do have to be registered with the government in case things go awry. It's a matter of keeping yourself above water if something happens while a child is in the care of any day care/day home provider.