DCF SPECIAL NEEDS APPROPRIATE PRACTICES (SNP) EXAM
WITH CORRECT 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.
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, 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.
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WITH CORRECT 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.
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, 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.
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