Deck 7: Informing Practice Through The Lens Of Early Identification

Question 1

What is the role of formative evaluation in the cycle of observation?

Answer 1

Answers will vary.

Question 2

What has changed in the field of early childhood regarding the term special needs?

A) Special needs is now a speculative term defined by practitioners only.
B) A new term that requires extensive terminology and diagnosis.
C) There has been an attitudinal change regarding who has special needs.
D) Special needs now refers to those who have been identified using three criteria.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following does the cycle of observation refer to?

A) A reflective, transforming process
B) A cycle of curriculum and documentation for one child
C) An observational cycle that includes the child, family and educators but not the community.
D) All of the above

Answer 3

A

Question 4

How does the early intervention system work with the cycle of observation?

Question 5

What is the Nipissing District Developmental Screen?

Question 6

What are the components of family-centred services or practices?

Question 7

How does professional collaboration build community capacity?

Question 8

What is the role of observation in the early identification of children with special needs?

Question 9

How are the various individualized plans,such as IEP,IPP,ITP,and IFSP,similar yet different?

Question 10

What are some of the variables to consider when making assessment choices?

Question 11

What are the three stages of assessment?

A) screening, social-cultural, and diagnostic
B) screening, functional, and diagnostic
C) screening, authentic, and diagnostic
D) screening, diagnostic, and ECA

Question 12

What is the difference between formative and summative evaluation?

Question 13

Define the term early identification.

Question 14

Why is the subject of health and wellness included in this chapter?

Question 15

What is a criterion-referenced assessment tool?

Question 16

Briefly define family-centredness.

Question 17

Briefly describe an IFSP (Individual Family Support Plan).

Question 18

Which of the following best describes early intervention?

A) an exclusive, consultative model
B) a multilayered, multifaceted system
C) a variation of systems within special education
D) a and c

Question 19

What is an individualized plan? Given one example.