SNP - Special Needs Appropriate
Practices (2025) comprehensive questions
and verified answers ( detailed &
elaborated)
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Agencies and organizations that offer various types of educational and other
resources for children with special needs and families. - - Support Service
• hours of operation
• cost and quality of your care
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• available enrollment space for a child that age
* by law, you cannot ask any parent if they have child with special needs. - -
What elements are most important to the parents during their first meeting with a
prospective childcare provider?
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Making or becoming something suitable; it means adjusting to circumstances. -
- Accommodation
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Small changes in the environment that allow all children to participate in activities
to the best of their ability and succeed at some level. - - Modification
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All children have the right to be included with other children in their own age
group, in all activities and in their natural environment. - - Inclusion
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Transportation, development, corrective and other services that are needed by a
child with special needs in order for them to benefit from education. - -
Related Service
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A child with challenges to his it her mental, physical, sensory, emotional or
behavioral development, or with special medical needs. - - Student with a
disability
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A situation in which day-to-day settings, routines and activities promote learning
for all children, regardless of their ability or disability. - - Natural
Environment
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A federal law that requires states to provide education to all children, regardless
of their disabilities. - - Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA)
A federal law that prohibits discrimination based upon disability. - 📌📌-
Americans with Disability Act (ADA)
, 📌📌
A condition where on cannot function in the same way most people the same age
can. - - Disability
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A team approach to helping children with special needs that involves specialists
from more than one discipline. - - Multidisciplinary
📌📌
When a caregiver, working with a child's family, using teaching, learning and
sharing of information to help a child with special needs. - -
Transdisciplinary
• refer to the person first not the disability
• avoid portraying with special needs as heroic, superhuman, an inspiration to us
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all or other extraordinary terms.
• avoid using terms rooted in concepts of dependency and helplessness. - -
People First Language
• how are children with special needs commonly portrayed by others?
- unable
- needy
- demanding
- difficult
• children with special needs are just like other children. At times anyone can be
any of these or none of these:
- invisibility
- infantilizing
- objectifying
- not noticing or not talking about the special need
📌📌
- unable to do or achieve treatment
- seeing person's disability - - Common Attitudes
• handicapped person: have a disability or a special need
• crippled: person with a physical disability
• deaf boy/girl: child who hearing is impaired or child with hearing loss
• CP victim: person with cerebral palsy
• Aids carrier: person with AIDS
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Suffers with...
Person who has... - - List of illnesses Disabilities
• child care providers cannot discriminate against persons with disabilities on the
basis of their disabilities.
• centers cannot exclude children with disabilities from their programs.
📌📌
• centers have to make reasonable modifications
• centers must provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services. - - What are
the basic requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
, • multiple disabilities
• orthopedic impairment
• others health impairment
• serious emotional disturbance
• specific learning disability
• speech or language
📌📌
• traumatic brain injury
• visual impairment - - Specific types of disabilities
• Physical Health/ Motor Development: involve physical growth and abilities.
• Cognitive Development & General Knowledge: include thinking, planning,
cheating, exploring and questioning.
• Language & Communication: includes a child's ability to see, read and write.
• Social & Emotional: is defined by forming relationship and attachments.
📌📌
• Approaches to learn: include thinking, planning, cheating, exploring and
questioning. - - 6 domains of development that can be delayed
📌📌
A chronic condition that is diagnosed in childhood and substantially limits major
life activities in adulthood to help support these children. - - Developmental
Disability
📌📌
Appropriate support in the first three years of life of a child with special needs. -
- Early Intervention
A group of brain-based neurological disorders characterized by social
📌📌
impairments, communication difficulties, and restricted and repetitive pattern of
behavior. - - Autism
📌📌
A genetic disorder that results in a number of physical characteristics and
intellectual impairments. - - Down Syndrome
• prevention
📌📌- Three types of positive behavior
• redirection
• positive reinforcement -
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. - - Describe
Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP)
Practices (2025) comprehensive questions
and verified answers ( detailed &
elaborated)
📌📌
Agencies and organizations that offer various types of educational and other
resources for children with special needs and families. - - Support Service
• 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. - -
What elements are most important to the parents during their first meeting with a
prospective childcare provider?
📌📌
Making or becoming something suitable; it means adjusting to circumstances. -
- Accommodation
📌📌
Small changes in the environment that allow all children to participate in activities
to the best of their ability and succeed at some level. - - Modification
📌📌
All children have the right to be included with other children in their own age
group, in all activities and in their natural environment. - - Inclusion
📌📌
Transportation, development, corrective and other services that are needed by a
child with special needs in order for them to benefit from education. - -
Related Service
📌📌
A child with challenges to his it her mental, physical, sensory, emotional or
behavioral development, or with special medical needs. - - Student with a
disability
📌📌
A situation in which day-to-day settings, routines and activities promote learning
for all children, regardless of their ability or disability. - - Natural
Environment
📌📌
A federal law that requires states to provide education to all children, regardless
of their disabilities. - - Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA)
A federal law that prohibits discrimination based upon disability. - 📌📌-
Americans with Disability Act (ADA)
, 📌📌
A condition where on cannot function in the same way most people the same age
can. - - Disability
📌📌
A team approach to helping children with special needs that involves specialists
from more than one discipline. - - Multidisciplinary
📌📌
When a caregiver, working with a child's family, using teaching, learning and
sharing of information to help a child with special needs. - -
Transdisciplinary
• refer to the person first not the disability
• avoid portraying with special needs as heroic, superhuman, an inspiration to us
📌📌
all or other extraordinary terms.
• avoid using terms rooted in concepts of dependency and helplessness. - -
People First Language
• how are children with special needs commonly portrayed by others?
- unable
- needy
- demanding
- difficult
• children with special needs are just like other children. At times anyone can be
any of these or none of these:
- invisibility
- infantilizing
- objectifying
- not noticing or not talking about the special need
📌📌
- unable to do or achieve treatment
- seeing person's disability - - Common Attitudes
• handicapped person: have a disability or a special need
• crippled: person with a physical disability
• deaf boy/girl: child who hearing is impaired or child with hearing loss
• CP victim: person with cerebral palsy
• Aids carrier: person with AIDS
📌📌
Suffers with...
Person who has... - - List of illnesses Disabilities
• child care providers cannot discriminate against persons with disabilities on the
basis of their disabilities.
• centers cannot exclude children with disabilities from their programs.
📌📌
• centers have to make reasonable modifications
• centers must provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services. - - What are
the basic requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
, • multiple disabilities
• orthopedic impairment
• others health impairment
• serious emotional disturbance
• specific learning disability
• speech or language
📌📌
• traumatic brain injury
• visual impairment - - Specific types of disabilities
• Physical Health/ Motor Development: involve physical growth and abilities.
• Cognitive Development & General Knowledge: include thinking, planning,
cheating, exploring and questioning.
• Language & Communication: includes a child's ability to see, read and write.
• Social & Emotional: is defined by forming relationship and attachments.
📌📌
• Approaches to learn: include thinking, planning, cheating, exploring and
questioning. - - 6 domains of development that can be delayed
📌📌
A chronic condition that is diagnosed in childhood and substantially limits major
life activities in adulthood to help support these children. - - Developmental
Disability
📌📌
Appropriate support in the first three years of life of a child with special needs. -
- Early Intervention
A group of brain-based neurological disorders characterized by social
📌📌
impairments, communication difficulties, and restricted and repetitive pattern of
behavior. - - Autism
📌📌
A genetic disorder that results in a number of physical characteristics and
intellectual impairments. - - Down Syndrome
• prevention
📌📌- Three types of positive behavior
• redirection
• positive reinforcement -
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. - - Describe
Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP)
