DCF Special Needs Appropriate Practices (SNP) questions
with complete solutions
Support Service Correct Answer: 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? Correct 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.
Accommodation Correct Answer: Making or becoming something suitable; it means adjusting
to circumstances.
Modification Correct 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.
Inclusion Correct 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.
Related Service Correct Answer: 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 Correct Answer: A child with challenges to his it her mental, physical,
sensory, emotional or behavioral development, or with special medical needs.
Natural Environment Correct Answer: 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) Correct Answer: A federal law that requires
states to provide education to all children, regardless of their disabilities.
Americans with Disability Act (ADA) Correct Answer: A federal law that prohibits
discrimination based upon disability.
Mainstreaming Correct 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.
Disability Correct Answer: A condition where on cannot function in the same way most people
the same age can.
Multidisciplinary Correct Answer: A team approach to helping children with special needs that
involves specialists from more than one discipline.
, Transdisciplinary Correct Answer: When a caregiver, working with a child's family, using
teaching, learning and sharing of information to help a child with special needs.
People First Language Correct Answer: • 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.
Common Attitudes Correct Answer: • 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
List of illnesses Disabilities Correct Answer: • 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...
What are the basic requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? Correct Answer:
• 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.
Specific types of disabilities Correct Answer: • autism
• deaf
• deaf-blindness
• hearing impairment
• mental retardation
• multiple disabilities
with complete solutions
Support Service Correct Answer: 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? Correct 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.
Accommodation Correct Answer: Making or becoming something suitable; it means adjusting
to circumstances.
Modification Correct 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.
Inclusion Correct 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.
Related Service Correct Answer: 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 Correct Answer: A child with challenges to his it her mental, physical,
sensory, emotional or behavioral development, or with special medical needs.
Natural Environment Correct Answer: 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) Correct Answer: A federal law that requires
states to provide education to all children, regardless of their disabilities.
Americans with Disability Act (ADA) Correct Answer: A federal law that prohibits
discrimination based upon disability.
Mainstreaming Correct 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.
Disability Correct Answer: A condition where on cannot function in the same way most people
the same age can.
Multidisciplinary Correct Answer: A team approach to helping children with special needs that
involves specialists from more than one discipline.
, Transdisciplinary Correct Answer: When a caregiver, working with a child's family, using
teaching, learning and sharing of information to help a child with special needs.
People First Language Correct Answer: • 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.
Common Attitudes Correct Answer: • 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
List of illnesses Disabilities Correct Answer: • 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...
What are the basic requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? Correct Answer:
• 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.
Specific types of disabilities Correct Answer: • autism
• deaf
• deaf-blindness
• hearing impairment
• mental retardation
• multiple disabilities
