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SNP - Special Needs Appropriate
Practices Questions and Answers 2025
Support Service - Agencies 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? - • 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 - Making or becoming something suitable; it means adjusting to
circumstances.
Modification - Small changes in the environment that allow all children to participate in
activities to the best of their ability and succeed at some level.
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.
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.
Student with a disability - A child with challenges to his it her mental, physical, sensory,
emotional or behavioral development, or with special medical needs.
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Natural Environment - A 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) - A federal law that requires states to
provide education to all children, regardless of their disabilities.
Americans with Disability Act (ADA) - A federal law that prohibits discrimination based
upon disability.
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.
Disability - A condition where on cannot function in the same way most people the same
age can.
Multidisciplinary - A team approach to helping children with special needs that involves
specialists from more than one discipline.
Transdisciplinary - When 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 - • 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 - • how are children with special needs commonly portrayed by
others?
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- 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 - • 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)? - • 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
SNP
SNP - Special Needs Appropriate
Practices Questions and Answers 2025
Support Service - Agencies 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? - • 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 - Making or becoming something suitable; it means adjusting to
circumstances.
Modification - Small changes in the environment that allow all children to participate in
activities to the best of their ability and succeed at some level.
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.
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.
Student with a disability - A child with challenges to his it her mental, physical, sensory,
emotional or behavioral development, or with special medical needs.
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Natural Environment - A 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) - A federal law that requires states to
provide education to all children, regardless of their disabilities.
Americans with Disability Act (ADA) - A federal law that prohibits discrimination based
upon disability.
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.
Disability - A condition where on cannot function in the same way most people the same
age can.
Multidisciplinary - A team approach to helping children with special needs that involves
specialists from more than one discipline.
Transdisciplinary - When 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 - • 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 - • how are children with special needs commonly portrayed by
others?
SNP
, SNP
- 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 - • 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)? - • 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
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