Inclusion
Competency Assessment
1. ABC Child Care, a home child care, participates in Paths to QUALITY™ and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) program. The owner received a call from a parent about enrolling her son, who has cerebral palsy, in ABC Child Care. Since the owner has never cared for a child who has a disability and doesn’t have any knowledge about cerebral palsy, she can gracefully deny the child admission.
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2. Child care providers who accept any form of government funding cannot increase their rate for a child with a disability.
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False
3. Child care providers can deny a child access to their program because they are not potty trained when related to a disability issue.
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False
4. The Central Christian Church operates a full-day child care program in its facility. The child care is fully-funded through the child care fees paid by the parents, so the program doesn’t need any government funding. This child care does not have to comply with ADA regulations?
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5. A child care center does not have to rearrange objects in a room to make it accessible to a child who uses a wheelchair because inclusion means granting access and the ability to participate without having to make special accommodations.
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6. Early intervention services in a child care setting are best delivered in a room separate from the other children. This allows the provider time to focus on the child needing services without having distractions, such as questions from the other children.
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7. Paths to QUALITY™ has four levels of quality indicators.
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8. Which is the preferred way to refer to children and autism:
a. Sam has autism
b. Sam is autistic
c. Either is preferred; both are person-first language
9. When a First Steps provider visits a family, a face-to-face summary sheet must be completed and given to the family. Since this is a First Steps document, the child care teacher would have little need for this document if services were provided in the child care setting.
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10. First Steps does allow early intervention services to be provided in a child care setting. Since First Steps wants parents to be involved in the child’s therapy, a policy is in place: every fourth early intervention session must be with the child’s parent/s.
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11. A First Steps provider can require a child to stay in a younger child care classroom because the child is developmentally not ready to move to the classroom with same-age peers.
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12. A First Steps/special education provider should request the child care teacher to adjust her classroom schedule to allow time for the intervention to take place when the provider has scheduled the services.
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13. First Steps/special education providers are encouraged to use their own toys and materials when providing services in a child care setting because the child care most likely won’t have the therapeutic toys that are needed.
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14. Inclusion specialists are trained to assist the child’s caregiver, the First Steps service providers and early childhood special education providers when providing services in a child care setting. While it is not mandatory for the inclusion specialist to be involved when intervention is provided in a child care setting, it is highly encouraged.
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15. A resource exists for all parties working to support intervention services in early care and education settings. It's called Checklist for Receiving First Steps Early Intervention Supports in Early Care and Education Settings.
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