DCF Special Needs Appropriate Practices
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1. Support Service - ANSWER ✔ Agencies and organizations that offer
various types of educational and other resources for children with special
needs and families.
2. What elements are most important to the parents during their first meeting
with a prospective childcare provider? - ANSWER ✔ • 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.
3. Accommodation - ANSWER ✔ Making or becoming something suitable; it
means adjusting to circumstances.
4. Modification - ANSWER ✔ Small changes in the environment that allow all
children to participate in activities to the best of their ability and succeed at
some level.
,5. Inclusion - ANSWER ✔ All children have the right to be included with
other children in their own age group, in all activities and in their natural
environment.
6. Related Service - ANSWER ✔ Transportation, development, corrective and
other services that are needed by a child with special needs in order for them
to benefit from education.
7. Student with a disability - ANSWER ✔ A child with challenges to his it her
mental, physical, sensory, emotional or behavioral development, or with
special medical needs.
8. Natural Environment - ANSWER ✔ A situation in which day-to-day
settings, routines and activities promote learning for all children, regardless
of their ability or disability.
9. Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA) - ANSWER ✔ A federal
law that requires states to provide education to all children, regardless of
their disabilities.
10.Americans with Disability Act (ADA) - ANSWER ✔ A federal law that
prohibits discrimination based upon disability.
11.Mainstreaming - ANSWER ✔ 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.
,12.Disability - ANSWER ✔ A condition where on cannot function in the same
way most people the same age can.
13.Multidisciplinary - ANSWER ✔ A team approach to helping children with
special needs that involves specialists from more than one discipline.
14.What makes an inclusive child care setting? - ANSWER ✔ 1.People first
language
2. Using inclusive language and discussion
3. Research the needs of children in your care
4. Providing DAP
5. Allowing all children into your program no matter their physical, mental,
developmental or emotional needs
15.Support Services - ANSWER ✔ organizations that offer resources for
children with special needs and their families; ex: Head Start, Child Care
Resource, Subsidized Child Care
16.Six Child Development Principles - ANSWER ✔ 1.Children develop rapidly
and simultaneously through the body
2.There are identifiable stages and patterns of developments but there is
variation in rates
3.Development is not uniform
4.Sequence of development is similar but children can progress, regress
and/or skip stages
, 5.Each skill builds off a previous one
6. Social and cultural rules influence what a child learns
17.Six Domains of Development that can be delayed - ANSWER ✔ 1.Physical
2.Motor
3.Cognitive Development and General Knowledge
4.Social and Emotional
5.Language and Communication
6.Approaches to learning
18.Prevention - ANSWER ✔ Stops challenging behaviors before they begin
and it it the primary method child care professionals use to encourage
children to discard unwanted behaviors
19.Redirection - ANSWER ✔ Used to guide children's behaviors by
recognizing challenging behavior at its earliest stages and taking steps to
stop it from escalating.
20.Positive Reinforcement - ANSWER ✔ Desired behaviors are rewarded so
that the child is encourages to repeat them.
21.Three main aspects of DAP - ANSWER ✔ 1. General knowledge of child
development
2.Specific knowledge of a particular child
3.Knowledge of social and cultural context
(SNP) Test STUDY GUIDE 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. Support Service - ANSWER ✔ Agencies and organizations that offer
various types of educational and other resources for children with special
needs and families.
2. What elements are most important to the parents during their first meeting
with a prospective childcare provider? - ANSWER ✔ • 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.
3. Accommodation - ANSWER ✔ Making or becoming something suitable; it
means adjusting to circumstances.
4. Modification - ANSWER ✔ Small changes in the environment that allow all
children to participate in activities to the best of their ability and succeed at
some level.
,5. Inclusion - ANSWER ✔ All children have the right to be included with
other children in their own age group, in all activities and in their natural
environment.
6. Related Service - ANSWER ✔ Transportation, development, corrective and
other services that are needed by a child with special needs in order for them
to benefit from education.
7. Student with a disability - ANSWER ✔ A child with challenges to his it her
mental, physical, sensory, emotional or behavioral development, or with
special medical needs.
8. Natural Environment - ANSWER ✔ A situation in which day-to-day
settings, routines and activities promote learning for all children, regardless
of their ability or disability.
9. Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA) - ANSWER ✔ A federal
law that requires states to provide education to all children, regardless of
their disabilities.
10.Americans with Disability Act (ADA) - ANSWER ✔ A federal law that
prohibits discrimination based upon disability.
11.Mainstreaming - ANSWER ✔ 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.
,12.Disability - ANSWER ✔ A condition where on cannot function in the same
way most people the same age can.
13.Multidisciplinary - ANSWER ✔ A team approach to helping children with
special needs that involves specialists from more than one discipline.
14.What makes an inclusive child care setting? - ANSWER ✔ 1.People first
language
2. Using inclusive language and discussion
3. Research the needs of children in your care
4. Providing DAP
5. Allowing all children into your program no matter their physical, mental,
developmental or emotional needs
15.Support Services - ANSWER ✔ organizations that offer resources for
children with special needs and their families; ex: Head Start, Child Care
Resource, Subsidized Child Care
16.Six Child Development Principles - ANSWER ✔ 1.Children develop rapidly
and simultaneously through the body
2.There are identifiable stages and patterns of developments but there is
variation in rates
3.Development is not uniform
4.Sequence of development is similar but children can progress, regress
and/or skip stages
, 5.Each skill builds off a previous one
6. Social and cultural rules influence what a child learns
17.Six Domains of Development that can be delayed - ANSWER ✔ 1.Physical
2.Motor
3.Cognitive Development and General Knowledge
4.Social and Emotional
5.Language and Communication
6.Approaches to learning
18.Prevention - ANSWER ✔ Stops challenging behaviors before they begin
and it it the primary method child care professionals use to encourage
children to discard unwanted behaviors
19.Redirection - ANSWER ✔ Used to guide children's behaviors by
recognizing challenging behavior at its earliest stages and taking steps to
stop it from escalating.
20.Positive Reinforcement - ANSWER ✔ Desired behaviors are rewarded so
that the child is encourages to repeat them.
21.Three main aspects of DAP - ANSWER ✔ 1. General knowledge of child
development
2.Specific knowledge of a particular child
3.Knowledge of social and cultural context
