DCF Special Needs Appropriate Practices (SNP)
Test Questions and answers
1. Support Service: Agencies and organizations that offer
various types of edu- cational and other resources for children
with special needs and families.
2. What elements are most important to the parents during
their first meeting with a prospective childcare provider?: •
hours of operation
• cost and quality of your care
• available enrollment space for a child that age
* by law, you cannot ask any parent if they have child with special
needs.
3. Accommodation: Making or becoming something suitable; it
means adjusting to circumstances.
4. Modification: Small changes in the environment that allow all
children to par- ticipate in activities to the best of their ability and
succeed at some level.
5. Inclusion: All children have the right to be included with other
children in their own age group, in all activities and in their natural
environment.
, 6. Related Service: Transportation, development, corrective and
other services that are needed by a child with special needs in
order for them to benefit from education.
7. Student with a disability: A child with challenges to his it her
mental, physical, sensory, emotional or behavioral development,
or with special medical needs.
8. Natural Environment: A situation in which day-to-day settings,
routines and activities promote learning for all children, regardless
of their ability or disability.
9. Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA): A federal
law that requires states to provide education to all children,
regardless of their disabilities.
10. Americans with Disability Act (ADA): A federal law that
prohibits discrimina- tion based upon disability.
11. Mainstreaming: An obstacle method of working with children
with special need in which children earned the right to be in classes
or school by demonstrating their ability to keep up with the work
load.
12. Disability: A condition where on cannot function in the same
way most people the same age can.
Test Questions and answers
1. Support Service: Agencies and organizations that offer
various types of edu- cational and other resources for children
with special needs and families.
2. What elements are most important to the parents during
their first meeting with a prospective childcare provider?: •
hours of operation
• cost and quality of your care
• available enrollment space for a child that age
* by law, you cannot ask any parent if they have child with special
needs.
3. Accommodation: Making or becoming something suitable; it
means adjusting to circumstances.
4. Modification: Small changes in the environment that allow all
children to par- ticipate in activities to the best of their ability and
succeed at some level.
5. Inclusion: All children have the right to be included with other
children in their own age group, in all activities and in their natural
environment.
, 6. Related Service: Transportation, development, corrective and
other services that are needed by a child with special needs in
order for them to benefit from education.
7. Student with a disability: A child with challenges to his it her
mental, physical, sensory, emotional or behavioral development,
or with special medical needs.
8. Natural Environment: A situation in which day-to-day settings,
routines and activities promote learning for all children, regardless
of their ability or disability.
9. Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA): A federal
law that requires states to provide education to all children,
regardless of their disabilities.
10. Americans with Disability Act (ADA): A federal law that
prohibits discrimina- tion based upon disability.
11. Mainstreaming: An obstacle method of working with children
with special need in which children earned the right to be in classes
or school by demonstrating their ability to keep up with the work
load.
12. Disability: A condition where on cannot function in the same
way most people the same age can.
