DCF Special Needs Appropriate
Practices (SNP) Complete Exam
Study Questions with Verified
Answers | Latest Edition
1. What makes an inclusive child care setting? - ANSWER a. People first
language
b. Using inclusive language and discussion
c. Research the needs of children in your care
d. Providing DAP
e. Allowing all children into your program no matter their physical, mental,
developmental or emotional needs
2. Support Services - ANSWER organizations that offer resources for children
with special needs and their families; ex: Head Start, Child Care Resource,
Subsidized Child Care
3. ADA means - ANSWER Federal law that prohibits discrimination based
upon mental or physical disability.
4. Disability means - ANSWER The result of any physical or mental condition
that affects or prevents one's ability to develop, achieve, and/or function in
an educational setting at a normal rate.
5. IDEA means - ANSWER Federal law that requires all states to provide a
free appropriate education to eligible children and youth with disabilities.
,6. Inclusion means - ANSWER The philosophy that all children have the right
to be included with their peers in all age appropriate activities throughout
life; accommodating all students in the natural environments they would
otherwise be in if not a child with special needs.
7. Mainsteaming - ANSWER Children with special needs - based in special
education class settings - earn the right to join peers in typical education
classes by demonstrating ability to "keep up" with workload. Usually limited
to the one or two subject areas at which the child excels. This term is no
longer used.
8. Multidisciplinary - ANSWER A team approach involving specialists from
more than one discipline, such as a team made up of a physical therapist, a
speech and language pathologist, a child development specialist, an
occupational therapist, or other specialists as needed.
9. Natural Environment - ANSWER (Caring for a child with special needs in)
home and community settings in which children without disabilities
participate; the day-to-day settings, routines and activities that promote
learning for all children. Also, incorporating therapeutic activities into daily
activities to avoid disturbing the normal daily routine of the child.
10.Related services - ANSWER Transportation and development, corrective
and other support services that are required by a child with special needs in
order for them to benefit from education. Examples include speech/language
pathology and audiology, psychological services, physical and occupational
therapy, recreation, counseling services, interpreters for those with hearing
impairments, medical services for diagnostic and evaluation purposes and
assistive technology devices and services.
, 11.Student with disability - ANSWER Children whose development or health
is viewed by parents and professionals as atypical. This includes children
with mental, physical, sensory, emotional/ behavioral, medical and other
special needs.
12.Support Services - ANSWER Agencies and organizations that offer various
types of educational and ancillary resources for children with special needs
and their families. Agencies such as Head Start, Agency for Persons with
Disabilities, Subsidized Child Care, Child Care Resource and Referral
Network and Florida Directory of Early Childhood Services Central
Directory Network, and Children's Forum offering a variety of related
services
13.Transdisciplinary - ANSWER A model that uses teaching, learning, and
sharing of information across disciplinary boundaries enabling one team
member, along with the family, to carry out intervention strategies for a
child with special needs.
14.Six Child Development Principles - ANSWER 1.Children develop rapidly
and simultaneously through the body
2.There are identifiable stages and patterns of developments but there is
variation in rates
3.Development is not uniform
4.Sequence of development is similar but children can progress, regress and/or
skip stages
5.Each skill builds off a previous one
6. Social and cultural rules influence what a child learns
15.Six Domains of Development that can be delayed - ANSWER 1.Physical
2.Motor
Practices (SNP) Complete Exam
Study Questions with Verified
Answers | Latest Edition
1. What makes an inclusive child care setting? - ANSWER a. People first
language
b. Using inclusive language and discussion
c. Research the needs of children in your care
d. Providing DAP
e. Allowing all children into your program no matter their physical, mental,
developmental or emotional needs
2. Support Services - ANSWER organizations that offer resources for children
with special needs and their families; ex: Head Start, Child Care Resource,
Subsidized Child Care
3. ADA means - ANSWER Federal law that prohibits discrimination based
upon mental or physical disability.
4. Disability means - ANSWER The result of any physical or mental condition
that affects or prevents one's ability to develop, achieve, and/or function in
an educational setting at a normal rate.
5. IDEA means - ANSWER Federal law that requires all states to provide a
free appropriate education to eligible children and youth with disabilities.
,6. Inclusion means - ANSWER The philosophy that all children have the right
to be included with their peers in all age appropriate activities throughout
life; accommodating all students in the natural environments they would
otherwise be in if not a child with special needs.
7. Mainsteaming - ANSWER Children with special needs - based in special
education class settings - earn the right to join peers in typical education
classes by demonstrating ability to "keep up" with workload. Usually limited
to the one or two subject areas at which the child excels. This term is no
longer used.
8. Multidisciplinary - ANSWER A team approach involving specialists from
more than one discipline, such as a team made up of a physical therapist, a
speech and language pathologist, a child development specialist, an
occupational therapist, or other specialists as needed.
9. Natural Environment - ANSWER (Caring for a child with special needs in)
home and community settings in which children without disabilities
participate; the day-to-day settings, routines and activities that promote
learning for all children. Also, incorporating therapeutic activities into daily
activities to avoid disturbing the normal daily routine of the child.
10.Related services - ANSWER Transportation and development, corrective
and other support services that are required by a child with special needs in
order for them to benefit from education. Examples include speech/language
pathology and audiology, psychological services, physical and occupational
therapy, recreation, counseling services, interpreters for those with hearing
impairments, medical services for diagnostic and evaluation purposes and
assistive technology devices and services.
, 11.Student with disability - ANSWER Children whose development or health
is viewed by parents and professionals as atypical. This includes children
with mental, physical, sensory, emotional/ behavioral, medical and other
special needs.
12.Support Services - ANSWER Agencies and organizations that offer various
types of educational and ancillary resources for children with special needs
and their families. Agencies such as Head Start, Agency for Persons with
Disabilities, Subsidized Child Care, Child Care Resource and Referral
Network and Florida Directory of Early Childhood Services Central
Directory Network, and Children's Forum offering a variety of related
services
13.Transdisciplinary - ANSWER A model that uses teaching, learning, and
sharing of information across disciplinary boundaries enabling one team
member, along with the family, to carry out intervention strategies for a
child with special needs.
14.Six Child Development Principles - ANSWER 1.Children develop rapidly
and simultaneously through the body
2.There are identifiable stages and patterns of developments but there is
variation in rates
3.Development is not uniform
4.Sequence of development is similar but children can progress, regress and/or
skip stages
5.Each skill builds off a previous one
6. Social and cultural rules influence what a child learns
15.Six Domains of Development that can be delayed - ANSWER 1.Physical
2.Motor
