New Report - Child Care Accessibility: Agencies Can Further Coordinate to Better Serve Families with Disabilities

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a new report on Child Care Accessibility and Families with Disabilities. Read the report and learn more here.

From the GAO Report:

Fast Facts

We also published an "Easy Read" version of this report. Easy Read is a way of making written information easier to understand. We published the Easy Read version to make our report more accessible to certain people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Millions of U.S. families include a child or parent with a disability. Many families struggle to find quality care for their children with disabilities or care that can accommodate a parent’s accessibility needs.

The Departments of Health and Human Services and Education have resources to help, but many parents are unaware of them.

One such resource is Education's Parent Training and Information Centers, which support parents of children with disabilities in every state. We recommended the agencies work together to increase awareness of these centers, which could help some families with disabilities find appropriate child care.