Special Needs Appropriate Practices (SNP)
DCF Exam Questions and Answers
1. ADA means: Federal law that prohibits discriminiation based
upon mental or physical disability.
2. Disability means: The result of any physical or mental condition
that affects or prevents one's ability to develop, achieve, and/or
function in an educational setting at a normal rate.
3. IDEA means: Federal law that requires all states to provide a
free appropriate education to eligible children and youth with
disabilities.
4. Inclusion means: The philosophy that all children have the right
to be included with their peers in all age appropriate activities
throughout life; accommodating all students in the natural
environments they would otherwise be in if not a child with special
needs.
5. Mainsteaming: Children with special needs - based in special
education class settings - earn the right to join peers in typical
education classes by demonstrating ability to "keep up" with
workload. Usually limited to the one or two subject areas at which
the child excels. This term is no longer
,used.
6. Multidisciplinary: A team approach involving specialists from
more than one discipline, such as a team made up of a physical
therapist, a speech and language pathologist, a child development
specialist, an occupational therapist, or other specialists as
needed.
7. Natural Environment: (Caring for a child with special needs in)
home and community settings in which children without disabilities
participate; the day-to-day settings, routines and activities that
promote learning for all children. Also, incorpo- rating therapeutic
activities into daily activities to avoid disturbing the normal daily
routine of the child.
8. Related services: Transportation and development, corrective
and other sup- port services that are required by a child with
special needs in order for them
to benefit from education. Examples include speech/language
pathology and audiology, psychological services, physical and
occupational therapy, recreation, counseling services, interpreters
for those with hearing impairments, medical services for
diagnostic and evaluation purposes and assistive technology
devices and services.
, 9. Student with disability: Children whose development or health
is viewed by parents and professionals as atypical. This includes
children with mental, physical, sensory, emotional/ behavioral,
medical and other special needs.
10. Support Services: Agencies and organizations that offer
various types
of educational and ancillary resources for children with special
needs and their families. Agencies such as Head Start, Agency
for Persons with Disabilities, Subsidized Child Care, Child Care
Resource and Referral Network and Florida Directory of Early
Childhood Services Central Directory Network, and Children's
Forum offering a variety of related services
11. Transdisciplinary: A model that uses teaching, learning, and
sharing of information across disciplinary boundaries enabling one
team member, along with the family, to carry out intervention
strategies for a child with special needs.
12. People First Language give appropriate term from this
inappropriate term: "Handicapped People": Person with a
disabiity or special needs
13. People First Language give appropriate term from this
inappropriate term: "Crippled": Person with a physical disability
DCF Exam Questions and Answers
1. ADA means: Federal law that prohibits discriminiation based
upon mental or physical disability.
2. Disability means: The result of any physical or mental condition
that affects or prevents one's ability to develop, achieve, and/or
function in an educational setting at a normal rate.
3. IDEA means: Federal law that requires all states to provide a
free appropriate education to eligible children and youth with
disabilities.
4. Inclusion means: The philosophy that all children have the right
to be included with their peers in all age appropriate activities
throughout life; accommodating all students in the natural
environments they would otherwise be in if not a child with special
needs.
5. Mainsteaming: Children with special needs - based in special
education class settings - earn the right to join peers in typical
education classes by demonstrating ability to "keep up" with
workload. Usually limited to the one or two subject areas at which
the child excels. This term is no longer
,used.
6. Multidisciplinary: A team approach involving specialists from
more than one discipline, such as a team made up of a physical
therapist, a speech and language pathologist, a child development
specialist, an occupational therapist, or other specialists as
needed.
7. Natural Environment: (Caring for a child with special needs in)
home and community settings in which children without disabilities
participate; the day-to-day settings, routines and activities that
promote learning for all children. Also, incorpo- rating therapeutic
activities into daily activities to avoid disturbing the normal daily
routine of the child.
8. Related services: Transportation and development, corrective
and other sup- port services that are required by a child with
special needs in order for them
to benefit from education. Examples include speech/language
pathology and audiology, psychological services, physical and
occupational therapy, recreation, counseling services, interpreters
for those with hearing impairments, medical services for
diagnostic and evaluation purposes and assistive technology
devices and services.
, 9. Student with disability: Children whose development or health
is viewed by parents and professionals as atypical. This includes
children with mental, physical, sensory, emotional/ behavioral,
medical and other special needs.
10. Support Services: Agencies and organizations that offer
various types
of educational and ancillary resources for children with special
needs and their families. Agencies such as Head Start, Agency
for Persons with Disabilities, Subsidized Child Care, Child Care
Resource and Referral Network and Florida Directory of Early
Childhood Services Central Directory Network, and Children's
Forum offering a variety of related services
11. Transdisciplinary: A model that uses teaching, learning, and
sharing of information across disciplinary boundaries enabling one
team member, along with the family, to carry out intervention
strategies for a child with special needs.
12. People First Language give appropriate term from this
inappropriate term: "Handicapped People": Person with a
disabiity or special needs
13. People First Language give appropriate term from this
inappropriate term: "Crippled": Person with a physical disability
