DCF Special Needs Appropriate
Practices (SNP) Exam 2023
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (100%
CORRECT) GRADED A
Support Service - CORRECT ANS 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? - CORRECT ANS • 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 - CORRECT ANS Making or becoming something suitable; it
means adjusting to circumstances.
Modification - CORRECT ANS 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 - CORRECT ANS 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 - CORRECT ANS 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 - CORRECT ANS A child with challenges to his it her
mental, physical, sensory, emotional or behavioral development, or with special
medical needs.
Natural Environment - CORRECT ANS 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) - CORRECT ANS A federal law
that requires states to provide education to all children, regardless of their
disabilities.
Americans with Disability Act (ADA) - CORRECT ANS A federal law that prohibits
discrimination based upon disability.
Mainstreaming - CORRECT ANS 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 - CORRECT ANS A condition where on cannot function in the same
way most people the same age can.
Multidisciplinary - CORRECT ANS A team approach to helping children with
special needs that involves specialists from more than one discipline.
Transdisciplinary - CORRECT ANS 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 - CORRECT ANS • refer to the person first not the
disability
, DCF Special Needs Appropriate
Practices (SNP) Exam 2023
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (100%
CORRECT) GRADED A
• 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 - CORRECT ANS • how are children with special needs
commonly portrayed by others?
- 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 - CORRECT ANS • 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)? -
CORRECT ANS • 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
• centers must provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services.
Specific types of disabilities - CORRECT ANS • autism
• deaf
• deaf-blindness
• hearing impairment
• mental retardation
• multiple disabilities
• orthopedic impairment
• others health impairment
• serious emotional disturbance
• specific learning disability
• speech or language
Practices (SNP) Exam 2023
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (100%
CORRECT) GRADED A
Support Service - CORRECT ANS 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? - CORRECT ANS • 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 - CORRECT ANS Making or becoming something suitable; it
means adjusting to circumstances.
Modification - CORRECT ANS 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 - CORRECT ANS 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 - CORRECT ANS 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 - CORRECT ANS A child with challenges to his it her
mental, physical, sensory, emotional or behavioral development, or with special
medical needs.
Natural Environment - CORRECT ANS 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) - CORRECT ANS A federal law
that requires states to provide education to all children, regardless of their
disabilities.
Americans with Disability Act (ADA) - CORRECT ANS A federal law that prohibits
discrimination based upon disability.
Mainstreaming - CORRECT ANS 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 - CORRECT ANS A condition where on cannot function in the same
way most people the same age can.
Multidisciplinary - CORRECT ANS A team approach to helping children with
special needs that involves specialists from more than one discipline.
Transdisciplinary - CORRECT ANS 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 - CORRECT ANS • refer to the person first not the
disability
, DCF Special Needs Appropriate
Practices (SNP) Exam 2023
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (100%
CORRECT) GRADED A
• 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 - CORRECT ANS • how are children with special needs
commonly portrayed by others?
- 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 - CORRECT ANS • 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)? -
CORRECT ANS • 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
• centers must provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services.
Specific types of disabilities - CORRECT ANS • autism
• deaf
• deaf-blindness
• hearing impairment
• mental retardation
• multiple disabilities
• orthopedic impairment
• others health impairment
• serious emotional disturbance
• specific learning disability
• speech or language
