Boundaries with disabled child

[JessB7777]

Incident today at a zoo, looking at an animal. Clearly non-verbal disabled child with reins comes up next to my 2 year old who is in a pram. They came up to the pram and grabbed my child’s glove off, then went to bite her hand. Caregiver stepped in but didn’t remove from situation, so it happened again with a bite this time. I just didn’t know what to do, grabbing the pram to move away or using any force might have accidentally hurt the other child. Caregiver should have done more to intervene but I can’t imagine how hard it is so it’s one of those things. I tried the first time the glove was swiped to say to my child ‘oh other child likes your pretty gloves too.’ But not sure if I made the situation worse.
Any advice on what is most helpful to do in this situation to support other caregiver? And also how to explain in an age appropriate way that encourages tolerance to a distraught bitten 2 year old that it isn’t the same as if she snatches something?

There is an escalation in behaviour management plans for disabled people. The use of force and restriction is the last technique and is mostly a failure of the plan.
Especially if the caregiver was not the parent.
Whenever force or restrictives measures are used, they need to be reported.
However, in the same way, whenever one of the people a support worker cares for, hurts somebody, there need to be a report and possibly a review of the behaviour plan.

A light way to explain it to your daughter, is that in non verbal children, behaviour is communication. They were trying to say something, and then make it light. Do you think they were mimicking the animals? do you think they were trying to say it was lunch time? Or that some children might look big, like a 9 years old, but in reality they are like tiny children, like aunty 's baby (say the name of friend or relative who has a baby) , who puts everything in their mouth. No harm was meant.

And don't talk too much about it. Your DD is 2 and she is likely to forget the incident .