DCF Special Needs Appropriate
Practices (SNP) Exam Study Guide |
Complete & Comprehensive | updated
2024/2025
List six guidelines that help child care professions work with families?
- Correct Answer –
1. Families are unique; Caregivers should solicit their input.
2. Provider's role with the family is as a professional and an assistant
3. Positive family involvement is a relationship built on trust and over time.
4. Always respect family diversity
5. Recognize the family's strengths and methods of coping.
6. This relationship exists for the child!
Adaptation –
- Correct Answer - any adjustments or modifications in the environment,
instruction, or materials used for learning
that enhances the child's performance or allows at least partial participation
in an activity.
Modification
- Correct Answer - - to change, or alter; to make less extreme, severe, or
strong
,Norms (Cultural Norms)
- Correct Answer - - a standard, model or pattern regarded as typical for a
specific cultural, racial, ethnic, religious or social group. Cultural norms
include thoughts, behaviors, and patterns of communication, customs,
beliefs, values, and institutions.
Family Culture –
- Correct Answer - norms that are learned and shared by members of the
fam
How does family culture affect family involvement with child development?
- Correct Answer –
1. Different Communication styles
2. Different Attitudes toward conflict
3. Different approaches to completing tasks
4. Different decision-making styles
ADA means
- Correct Answer - Federal law that prohibits discrimination based upon
mental or physical disability.
Disability means
- Correct 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.
IDEA means
, - Correct Answer - Federal law that requires all states to provide a free
appropriate education to eligible children and youth with disabilities.
Inclusion means
- Correct 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.
Mainstreaming
- Correct 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.
Multidisciplinary
- Correct 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.
Natural Environment
- Correct 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
Practices (SNP) Exam Study Guide |
Complete & Comprehensive | updated
2024/2025
List six guidelines that help child care professions work with families?
- Correct Answer –
1. Families are unique; Caregivers should solicit their input.
2. Provider's role with the family is as a professional and an assistant
3. Positive family involvement is a relationship built on trust and over time.
4. Always respect family diversity
5. Recognize the family's strengths and methods of coping.
6. This relationship exists for the child!
Adaptation –
- Correct Answer - any adjustments or modifications in the environment,
instruction, or materials used for learning
that enhances the child's performance or allows at least partial participation
in an activity.
Modification
- Correct Answer - - to change, or alter; to make less extreme, severe, or
strong
,Norms (Cultural Norms)
- Correct Answer - - a standard, model or pattern regarded as typical for a
specific cultural, racial, ethnic, religious or social group. Cultural norms
include thoughts, behaviors, and patterns of communication, customs,
beliefs, values, and institutions.
Family Culture –
- Correct Answer - norms that are learned and shared by members of the
fam
How does family culture affect family involvement with child development?
- Correct Answer –
1. Different Communication styles
2. Different Attitudes toward conflict
3. Different approaches to completing tasks
4. Different decision-making styles
ADA means
- Correct Answer - Federal law that prohibits discrimination based upon
mental or physical disability.
Disability means
- Correct 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.
IDEA means
, - Correct Answer - Federal law that requires all states to provide a free
appropriate education to eligible children and youth with disabilities.
Inclusion means
- Correct 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.
Mainstreaming
- Correct 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.
Multidisciplinary
- Correct 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.
Natural Environment
- Correct 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
