DCF BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION AND SCREENING
(BORS) ALREADY GRADED A+| INSTANT DIGITAL
PDF DOWNLOAD 2026 EXAM WITH ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Observation - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Is when a child care worker
recognizes and notes and identifiable performance or behavior and
uses instruments such as checklists, anecdotal records and running
records. The instruments are used to measure progress against a
standard and to share results with assessment experts.
Screening - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Means an instrument intended to
identity and monitor normal development or possible developmental
delay. Screening programs are not diagnostic, and are not based on
whether a child has passed a certain curriculum.
Why do we need this course? - SELECTED ANSWER👀 This course is
required by Florida statue 402.305 which describes "licensing
standards, child care programs."
Key benefits of developmental screening - SELECTED ANSWER👀 - early
detection of problems allows for timely referral for invention.
- the caregivers attention can be focused on activities that strengthen
the child's skills.
- Increased volume and quality of information available to the parents
regarding "in-the-home" activities that support normal development.
- provides a common reference point and basis for interaction for
parents, child care workers, and child development specialist.
,Proper screening - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Leads to sound assessment so
that early detection of potential developmental delays will determine
the correct referral and intervention.
Why do we use the analogy of a window window when we discuss
brain development? - SELECTED ANSWER👀 When a window is open,
air and other things have free access to the space within, but when the
window is closed, nothing can get through the window.
Principles if child development - SELECTED ANSWER👀 - development
in young children occurs rapidly and typically progresses in spurts.
- all children develop at their own rates because each child is unique.
Heredity and environment work together to make each child special
and different from all others. Together, these factors account for the
individual variations you see in children.
Six developmental domains - SELECTED ANSWER👀 1. Physical health
2. Motor development
3. Cognitive development & general knowledge
4. Language & communication
5. Approaches to learning
6. Social & emotional
Physical health - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Refer to the changes in body
shape and proportion. It includes change in weight, height, and etc.
Motor development - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Refers to a child's ability
to make about and control body parts such as grasping, rolling over,
hopping, etc.
Cognitive development and general knowledge - SELECTED ANSWER👀
Refers to a child's intellectual or mental abilities. It involves finding
, processing and organizing information and using it appropriately.
Discovering interpreting, sorting, classifying, and remembering
information.
Language and communication - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Refers to child's
ability to express himself verbally and to receive and understand the
verbal communication of others. It involves vocabulary, grammar,
reading, writing, and ability to understand things around them.
Approaches to learning - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Refers to how skills and
knowledge are acquired through the three qualities eagerness and
curiosity, persistence and creativity, and problem solving
Social and emotional - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Focuses how children feel
about themselves and their relationships with others. Refers to
individual behavior, responses to play and work activities, attachment
to parents and relationships with siblings and friends.
Age-level expectancies - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Represent a range
(rather than an exact point in time) when specific skills will be achieved.
Activity:
• laughing and show pleasure at interaction
- 8 to 18 months
• digs through sand to find hidden toys
- 24 to 36 months
• inspects own hands and feet
- birth to 8 months
• repeat words over and over
- 18 to 24 months
Tools for recording observations of children - SELECTED ANSWER👀 -
check lists
(BORS) ALREADY GRADED A+| INSTANT DIGITAL
PDF DOWNLOAD 2026 EXAM WITH ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Observation - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Is when a child care worker
recognizes and notes and identifiable performance or behavior and
uses instruments such as checklists, anecdotal records and running
records. The instruments are used to measure progress against a
standard and to share results with assessment experts.
Screening - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Means an instrument intended to
identity and monitor normal development or possible developmental
delay. Screening programs are not diagnostic, and are not based on
whether a child has passed a certain curriculum.
Why do we need this course? - SELECTED ANSWER👀 This course is
required by Florida statue 402.305 which describes "licensing
standards, child care programs."
Key benefits of developmental screening - SELECTED ANSWER👀 - early
detection of problems allows for timely referral for invention.
- the caregivers attention can be focused on activities that strengthen
the child's skills.
- Increased volume and quality of information available to the parents
regarding "in-the-home" activities that support normal development.
- provides a common reference point and basis for interaction for
parents, child care workers, and child development specialist.
,Proper screening - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Leads to sound assessment so
that early detection of potential developmental delays will determine
the correct referral and intervention.
Why do we use the analogy of a window window when we discuss
brain development? - SELECTED ANSWER👀 When a window is open,
air and other things have free access to the space within, but when the
window is closed, nothing can get through the window.
Principles if child development - SELECTED ANSWER👀 - development
in young children occurs rapidly and typically progresses in spurts.
- all children develop at their own rates because each child is unique.
Heredity and environment work together to make each child special
and different from all others. Together, these factors account for the
individual variations you see in children.
Six developmental domains - SELECTED ANSWER👀 1. Physical health
2. Motor development
3. Cognitive development & general knowledge
4. Language & communication
5. Approaches to learning
6. Social & emotional
Physical health - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Refer to the changes in body
shape and proportion. It includes change in weight, height, and etc.
Motor development - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Refers to a child's ability
to make about and control body parts such as grasping, rolling over,
hopping, etc.
Cognitive development and general knowledge - SELECTED ANSWER👀
Refers to a child's intellectual or mental abilities. It involves finding
, processing and organizing information and using it appropriately.
Discovering interpreting, sorting, classifying, and remembering
information.
Language and communication - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Refers to child's
ability to express himself verbally and to receive and understand the
verbal communication of others. It involves vocabulary, grammar,
reading, writing, and ability to understand things around them.
Approaches to learning - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Refers to how skills and
knowledge are acquired through the three qualities eagerness and
curiosity, persistence and creativity, and problem solving
Social and emotional - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Focuses how children feel
about themselves and their relationships with others. Refers to
individual behavior, responses to play and work activities, attachment
to parents and relationships with siblings and friends.
Age-level expectancies - SELECTED ANSWER👀 Represent a range
(rather than an exact point in time) when specific skills will be achieved.
Activity:
• laughing and show pleasure at interaction
- 8 to 18 months
• digs through sand to find hidden toys
- 24 to 36 months
• inspects own hands and feet
- birth to 8 months
• repeat words over and over
- 18 to 24 months
Tools for recording observations of children - SELECTED ANSWER👀 -
check lists
