DCF Special Needs Appropriate Practices (SNP) Questions and Correct Answers 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. 1 / 2
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
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