DCF Special Needs Exam Questions and Complete Solutions.

DCF Special Needs Exam Questions and Complete Solutions What are support services? - Answer: Services designed to aid families with special needs children. If you suspect a child may have a delay or disability, refer them to the ___. - Answer: Florida Diagnostics & Learning Resource System Early Intervention - Answer: Services that mitigate a delay or disability Disability - Answer: Causes life long impacts in major life activities Gifted - Answer: Cognitively life-long impacts in major life activities Cognitive - Answer: relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) Natural Environment - Answer: A place where you would typically see children living, playing, and learning Support Services - Answer: Services offered by agencies to help children with disabilities Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - Answer: A federal law that prohibits businesses from discriminating against people with disabilities Developmentally Appropriate Practice - Answer: Involves knowing child development, along with each child's cultural and individual needs Delay - Answer: Usually overcome by adulthood, especially with early intervention Inclusion - Answer: The idea that activities and environments should be made accessible for all children Talented - Answer: Having a special ability not typically seen in peers People First Language - Answer: Mentioning the person before the condition and avoid using prejudicial language How do many people show prejudice towards special needs children? - Answer: Ignoring, infantilizing, and objectifying Why are childcare centers covered by the ADA? - Answer: They are public accommodations (not because they may receive public funds) True or false: A childcare center can impose a direct "special services subcharge" on the parents of the child with disabilities to cover services required by the ADA? - Answer: False, however the center may raise the rates for all customers in order to pay for special services Individuales with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - Answer: IDEA is a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation. IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to eligible children of all ages with disabilities IDEA specifies that each state must ... - Answer: ...have policies and procedures to ensure confidentiality of any personal information collected under IDEA. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) specifies ...? - Answer: The developmental sequence is ___in all children - Answer: Similar Development is never ___ but it is ___ - Answer: Uniform; consistent Development in children is ____, which means each area of development influences development in other areas because the developmental domains are dependent upon one another. - Answer: Interrelated Define: ZERO TO THREE - Answer: a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate people who work with infants and toddlers. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - Answer: a group of brain-based neurological disorders characterized by social impairments and communication difficulties, as well as restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior Down Syndrome - Answer: a genetic disorder that results in a number of physical characteristics and intellectual impairments Intellectual or cognitive impairment - Answer: refers to a condition in which people have difficulties caring for themselves, understanding health and safety issues, communicating with others, and learning necessary life skills. Early Intervention - Answer: Appropriate support in the first three years of the life of a child with special needs Developmentally appropriate environments and experiences are created through and defined by ___? - Answer: developmentally appropriate practice Special needs usually fall into one or more of what 5 categories? - Answer: Visual, hearing and language, cognitive, behavioral, and physical Q.T.I.P - Answer: Quit taking it personally S.T.A.R. - Answer: Stop, take a deep breath, and relax Florida Department of Education's office of early learning - Answer: Focuses in ensuring families have access to affordable, quality child care at a statewide level Child care resources and referral network - Answer: Helps parents find child care that best meets their child's needs and find assistance with food, housing, and medical care Warm line - Answer: Provides information that helps meet the needs of children with disabilities Early learning coalitions (ELC) - Answer: Work with child care professionals, school districts, and parents to prepare children to enter school Florida diagnostics and learning resources system (FDLRS) - Answer: Offers free screening of children under the age of 21 Florida child care resources and referral network (CCR&R) - Answer: Helps parents find appropriate childcare and financial assistance Child Find - Answer: Created by IDEA, it offers a wide range of screening and evaluation services Office of early learning (OEL) - Answer: Part of a major state agency, this is a key resource for child care providers who work with young children