DCF Special Needs Appropriate Practices (SNP)2024
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Describe Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP)
Are valuable general guidelines to support the learning of children. DAP is often referred to as Age of
Stages.
• Three main aspects of DAP:
- general knowledge of child development, or what you know about how children develop and learn.
- specific knowledge of particular child, or what you know about the strengths, needs and interests of
individual children.
- knowledge of social and cultural context contexts, or, what you know about the social and cultural
contexts in which their children love.
Adaption
Any adjustments or modifications in the environment, instruction, or materials used for learning that
enhance the child's performance or allows at least participation in an activity.
Family Involvement
• Family: are big, small, extended, nuclear and multigeneration. They have one parent, two parents,
boyfriends, and girlfriends. They're cheated birth, adoption, marriage, remarriage, foster care or a
desire for mutual support.
• Family Culture: unto itself, with different, values and unique ways of realizing it's dreams. Together,
family become the source of our rich cultural heritage and spiritual diversity.
• Norms (cultural norms): a standard, model or pattern regarding a typical for a specific cultural, racial,
ethnic, religious or social group.
* First teachers in a child's life? Parents and Family members
Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect
• are child care workers consider mandatory reporter? Yes
• mandatory reporters? Refers to people who, by the nature of their profession, are uniquely
positioned to see child abuse and neglect when it occurs
• what are you required to report? As a child care provider, it's your duty and your legal responsibility
according to chapter 39 of Florida statues to report any suspected case of child abuse or neglect.
• why would being different raise the probability that a child will be mistreated? Often, abusive
people prey on people they:
- consider weak
- see as not really people
- react with strong, negative emotion
• why do you think the incidence of sexual abuse of both children and adults with disabilities is so
high?
- they're are often seen as easy target
- they may experience sexual activity as pleasure, even when it's inappropriate.
- they may have difficultly resisting authority figures
, - children with disabilities are taught to be compliant
- authorities maybe slow it or reluctant to investigate or prosecute.
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.
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.
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Questions and Answers 100% Correct
Describe Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP)
Are valuable general guidelines to support the learning of children. DAP is often referred to as Age of
Stages.
• Three main aspects of DAP:
- general knowledge of child development, or what you know about how children develop and learn.
- specific knowledge of particular child, or what you know about the strengths, needs and interests of
individual children.
- knowledge of social and cultural context contexts, or, what you know about the social and cultural
contexts in which their children love.
Adaption
Any adjustments or modifications in the environment, instruction, or materials used for learning that
enhance the child's performance or allows at least participation in an activity.
Family Involvement
• Family: are big, small, extended, nuclear and multigeneration. They have one parent, two parents,
boyfriends, and girlfriends. They're cheated birth, adoption, marriage, remarriage, foster care or a
desire for mutual support.
• Family Culture: unto itself, with different, values and unique ways of realizing it's dreams. Together,
family become the source of our rich cultural heritage and spiritual diversity.
• Norms (cultural norms): a standard, model or pattern regarding a typical for a specific cultural, racial,
ethnic, religious or social group.
* First teachers in a child's life? Parents and Family members
Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect
• are child care workers consider mandatory reporter? Yes
• mandatory reporters? Refers to people who, by the nature of their profession, are uniquely
positioned to see child abuse and neglect when it occurs
• what are you required to report? As a child care provider, it's your duty and your legal responsibility
according to chapter 39 of Florida statues to report any suspected case of child abuse or neglect.
• why would being different raise the probability that a child will be mistreated? Often, abusive
people prey on people they:
- consider weak
- see as not really people
- react with strong, negative emotion
• why do you think the incidence of sexual abuse of both children and adults with disabilities is so
high?
- they're are often seen as easy target
- they may experience sexual activity as pleasure, even when it's inappropriate.
- they may have difficultly resisting authority figures
, - children with disabilities are taught to be compliant
- authorities maybe slow it or reluctant to investigate or prosecute.
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.
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.
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