BOSR DCF ACTUAL 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔IDEA - ✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
✔✔Benefits for child - ✔✔Assessment can lead to an evaluation, which may qualify the
child for benefits under IDEA.
✔✔According to Children's Medical Services (CMS), assessment refers to -
✔✔"...ongoing procedures used by appropriate qualified personnel throughout the
period of a child's eligibility to identify the following: (A) the child's unique strengths and
needs and the services appropriate to meet those needs, and (B) the resources,
priorities, and concerns of the family and the supports and services necessary to
enhance the family's capacity to meet the developmental needs of their infant or toddler
with a disability."
✔✔CMS defines evaluation as - ✔✔"...procedures used by appropriate qualified
personnel to determine a child's initial and continuing eligibility for Early Steps,
consistent with the definition of "infants and toddlers with disabilities" in §303.16,
including determining the status of the child in each of the developmental areas in 34
CFR §303.322 (c)(3)(ii).
✔✔To summarize, evaluation is a process that - ✔✔determines a child's eligibility for
federal, state, and local programs and services.
✔✔Assessment - ✔✔is a process whereby an agency or organization gathers and
reviews multiple sources of information about a child's suspected or confirmed
developmental delay or disability and uses that information to improve a child's
outcomes.
✔✔Evaluation - ✔✔is a process that determines a child's eligibility for federal, state, and
local programs and services.
✔✔Your role as a child care professional is - ✔✔observation, screening, and referral.
✔✔In observation and screening processes, your main responsibilities are to -
✔✔document the child's skills and abilities fairly, objectively, and accurately; and work
with families to refer children for further assessment and evaluation. Remember, if
information causes you to suspect child abuse or neglect, you must report it.
✔✔During an observation period, you will - ✔✔monitor a child as he or she
demonstrates identified skills or abilities within a developmental domain or domains.
You should conduct the screening in the child's natural environment when he or she is
, at his or her best. After the observation, you will document the child's file following
guidelines presented in this course and your employer's written procedures.
✔✔During a screening, you will - ✔✔identify and measure a child's specific skills and
abilities using a screening instrument.
✔✔While you are working, bear in mind two things: - ✔✔-one, your results are only one
source of information that will be used to better understand a child's behavior and
development; and
-two, it is critical to involve the child's family in the process.
✔✔Sometimes, the results of a program's observation and screening processes -
✔✔will indicate a possible developmental delay or disability. When this happens, you or
a designated coworker will talk to the child's parents and assist them in making an
appropriate referral.
✔✔Remember, the referral for assessment will play a role in empowering parents to
help their child - ✔✔grow and develop, improving a family's ability to navigate a complex
system of services, and ensuring eligible children receive benefits they are entitled to by
federal law.
✔✔Referrals - ✔✔Child care professionals observe and screen children, and should
work with families to make referrals.
✔✔4 interrelated processes - ✔✔Observation, screening, assessment, and evaluation
are interrelated processes.
✔✔Systematic process - ✔✔Child care programs should support families by observing
and screening children through an ongoing, systematic process.
✔✔Child care professionals do not assess or evaluate children; - ✔✔however, they do
provide information that is useful during the processes. It is vital that this information is
as complete and accurate as possible, or a child with a developmental delay or disability
could be overlooked.
✔✔Child care professionals should work with the families to make referrals to - ✔✔the
Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resource System's Child Find for assessment and
other services.
✔✔Children's Medical Services performs - ✔✔performs assessment and evaluation
processes to determine eligibility for programs and services under the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔IDEA - ✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
✔✔Benefits for child - ✔✔Assessment can lead to an evaluation, which may qualify the
child for benefits under IDEA.
✔✔According to Children's Medical Services (CMS), assessment refers to -
✔✔"...ongoing procedures used by appropriate qualified personnel throughout the
period of a child's eligibility to identify the following: (A) the child's unique strengths and
needs and the services appropriate to meet those needs, and (B) the resources,
priorities, and concerns of the family and the supports and services necessary to
enhance the family's capacity to meet the developmental needs of their infant or toddler
with a disability."
✔✔CMS defines evaluation as - ✔✔"...procedures used by appropriate qualified
personnel to determine a child's initial and continuing eligibility for Early Steps,
consistent with the definition of "infants and toddlers with disabilities" in §303.16,
including determining the status of the child in each of the developmental areas in 34
CFR §303.322 (c)(3)(ii).
✔✔To summarize, evaluation is a process that - ✔✔determines a child's eligibility for
federal, state, and local programs and services.
✔✔Assessment - ✔✔is a process whereby an agency or organization gathers and
reviews multiple sources of information about a child's suspected or confirmed
developmental delay or disability and uses that information to improve a child's
outcomes.
✔✔Evaluation - ✔✔is a process that determines a child's eligibility for federal, state, and
local programs and services.
✔✔Your role as a child care professional is - ✔✔observation, screening, and referral.
✔✔In observation and screening processes, your main responsibilities are to -
✔✔document the child's skills and abilities fairly, objectively, and accurately; and work
with families to refer children for further assessment and evaluation. Remember, if
information causes you to suspect child abuse or neglect, you must report it.
✔✔During an observation period, you will - ✔✔monitor a child as he or she
demonstrates identified skills or abilities within a developmental domain or domains.
You should conduct the screening in the child's natural environment when he or she is
, at his or her best. After the observation, you will document the child's file following
guidelines presented in this course and your employer's written procedures.
✔✔During a screening, you will - ✔✔identify and measure a child's specific skills and
abilities using a screening instrument.
✔✔While you are working, bear in mind two things: - ✔✔-one, your results are only one
source of information that will be used to better understand a child's behavior and
development; and
-two, it is critical to involve the child's family in the process.
✔✔Sometimes, the results of a program's observation and screening processes -
✔✔will indicate a possible developmental delay or disability. When this happens, you or
a designated coworker will talk to the child's parents and assist them in making an
appropriate referral.
✔✔Remember, the referral for assessment will play a role in empowering parents to
help their child - ✔✔grow and develop, improving a family's ability to navigate a complex
system of services, and ensuring eligible children receive benefits they are entitled to by
federal law.
✔✔Referrals - ✔✔Child care professionals observe and screen children, and should
work with families to make referrals.
✔✔4 interrelated processes - ✔✔Observation, screening, assessment, and evaluation
are interrelated processes.
✔✔Systematic process - ✔✔Child care programs should support families by observing
and screening children through an ongoing, systematic process.
✔✔Child care professionals do not assess or evaluate children; - ✔✔however, they do
provide information that is useful during the processes. It is vital that this information is
as complete and accurate as possible, or a child with a developmental delay or disability
could be overlooked.
✔✔Child care professionals should work with the families to make referrals to - ✔✔the
Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resource System's Child Find for assessment and
other services.
✔✔Children's Medical Services performs - ✔✔performs assessment and evaluation
processes to determine eligibility for programs and services under the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
