FSCT – Inclusion in Early Care and Education Training

Competency Assessment

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  1. ABC Child Care, a home child care, participates in Paths to QUALITY™ and theChild and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) program. The owner received a call from a parent about enrolling her son, who has cerebral palsy, in ABCChild 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.
  2. True
  3. False
  4. Child care providers who accept any form of government funding cannot increase their rate for a child with a disability.
  5. True
  6. False
  7. Child care providers can deny a child access to their program because they are not potty trained when related to a disability issue.
  8. True
  9. False
  10. 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?
  11. True
  12. False
  13. 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.
  14. True
  15. False
  16. 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.
  17. True
  18. False
  19. Paths to QUALITY™ hasfour levels of quality indicators.
  20. True
  21. False
  1. Which is the preferred way to refer to children and autism:
  2. Sam has autism
  3. Sam is autistic
  4. Either is preferred; both are person-first language
  5. 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.
  6. True
  7. False
  8. 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.
  9. True
  10. False
  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.
  12. True
  13. False
  14. A First Steps/special education providershould 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.
  15. True
  16. False
  17. 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.
  18. True
  19. False
  20. 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.
  21. True
  22. False
  23. 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.

True

False