DCF Special Needs Appropriate
Practices (SNP) graded A+ already
passed
Support Service - correct answersAgencies and organizations that offer various types of
educational and other resources for children with special needs and families.
What elements are most important to the parents during their first meeting with a
prospective childcare provider? - correct answers• 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.
Accommodation - correct answersMaking or becoming something suitable; it means
adjusting to circumstances.
Modification - correct answersSmall changes in the environment that allow all children
to participate in activities to the best of their ability and succeed at some level.
Inclusion - correct answersAll children have the right to be included with other children
in their own age group, in all activities and in their natural environment.
Related Service - correct answersTransportation, development, corrective and other
services that are needed by a child with special needs in order for them to benefit from
education.
Student with a disability - correct answersA child with challenges to his it her mental,
physical, sensory, emotional or behavioral development, or with special medical needs.
Natural Environment - correct answersA situation in which day-to-day settings, routines
and activities promote learning for all children, regardless of their ability or disability.
Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA) - correct answersA federal law that
requires states to provide education to all children, regardless of their disabilities.
Americans with Disability Act (ADA) - correct answersA federal law that prohibits
discrimination based upon disability.
Mainstreaming - correct answersAn 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.
, Disability - correct answersA condition where on cannot function in the same way most
people the same age can.
Multidisciplinary - correct answersA team approach to helping children with special
needs that involves specialists from more than one discipline.
Transdisciplinary - correct answersWhen a caregiver, working with a child's family,
using teaching, learning and sharing of information to help a child with special needs.
People First Language - correct answers• refer to the person first not the disability
• avoid portraying with special needs as heroic, superhuman, an inspiration to us all or
other extraordinary terms.
• avoid using terms rooted in concepts of dependency and helplessness.
Common Attitudes - correct answers• how are children with special needs commonly
portrayed by others?
- unable
- needy
- demanding
- difficult
• children with special needs are just like other children. At times anyone can be any of
these or none of these:
- invisibility
- infantilizing
- objectifying
- not noticing or not talking about the special need
- unable to do or achieve treatment
- seeing person's disability
List of illnesses Disabilities - correct answers• handicapped person: have a disability or
a special need
• crippled: person with a physical disability
• deaf boy/girl: child who hearing is impaired or child with hearing loss
• CP victim: person with cerebral palsy
• Aids carrier: person with AIDS
Suffers with...
Person who has...
What are the basic requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? - correct
answers• child care providers cannot discriminate against persons with disabilities on
the basis of their disabilities.
• centers cannot exclude children with disabilities from their programs.
• centers have to make reasonable modifications
• centers must provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services.
Specific types of disabilities - correct answers• autism
Practices (SNP) graded A+ already
passed
Support Service - correct answersAgencies and organizations that offer various types of
educational and other resources for children with special needs and families.
What elements are most important to the parents during their first meeting with a
prospective childcare provider? - correct answers• 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.
Accommodation - correct answersMaking or becoming something suitable; it means
adjusting to circumstances.
Modification - correct answersSmall changes in the environment that allow all children
to participate in activities to the best of their ability and succeed at some level.
Inclusion - correct answersAll children have the right to be included with other children
in their own age group, in all activities and in their natural environment.
Related Service - correct answersTransportation, development, corrective and other
services that are needed by a child with special needs in order for them to benefit from
education.
Student with a disability - correct answersA child with challenges to his it her mental,
physical, sensory, emotional or behavioral development, or with special medical needs.
Natural Environment - correct answersA situation in which day-to-day settings, routines
and activities promote learning for all children, regardless of their ability or disability.
Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA) - correct answersA federal law that
requires states to provide education to all children, regardless of their disabilities.
Americans with Disability Act (ADA) - correct answersA federal law that prohibits
discrimination based upon disability.
Mainstreaming - correct answersAn 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.
, Disability - correct answersA condition where on cannot function in the same way most
people the same age can.
Multidisciplinary - correct answersA team approach to helping children with special
needs that involves specialists from more than one discipline.
Transdisciplinary - correct answersWhen a caregiver, working with a child's family,
using teaching, learning and sharing of information to help a child with special needs.
People First Language - correct answers• refer to the person first not the disability
• avoid portraying with special needs as heroic, superhuman, an inspiration to us all or
other extraordinary terms.
• avoid using terms rooted in concepts of dependency and helplessness.
Common Attitudes - correct answers• how are children with special needs commonly
portrayed by others?
- unable
- needy
- demanding
- difficult
• children with special needs are just like other children. At times anyone can be any of
these or none of these:
- invisibility
- infantilizing
- objectifying
- not noticing or not talking about the special need
- unable to do or achieve treatment
- seeing person's disability
List of illnesses Disabilities - correct answers• handicapped person: have a disability or
a special need
• crippled: person with a physical disability
• deaf boy/girl: child who hearing is impaired or child with hearing loss
• CP victim: person with cerebral palsy
• Aids carrier: person with AIDS
Suffers with...
Person who has...
What are the basic requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? - correct
answers• child care providers cannot discriminate against persons with disabilities on
the basis of their disabilities.
• centers cannot exclude children with disabilities from their programs.
• centers have to make reasonable modifications
• centers must provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services.
Specific types of disabilities - correct answers• autism
