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Minimum supervision by a BCBA ✔Correct Answer-1 hour/month
QASP will demonstrate ✔Correct Answer-trustworthiness, honesty, fairness and sincerity
Non-discrimination policy ✔Correct Answer-The QABA Credentialing Board will not discriminate
against applicants, candidates or certificants on the basis of race, color, gender (including gender
identity and gender expression), religion, age, marital status, registered domestic partner status,
disability, socioeconomic or ethnic background, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran
status or national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) ✔Correct Answer-A disorder characterized by deficits in social
relatedness and communication skills that are often accompanied by repetitive, ritualistic behavior.
ASD characteristics ✔Correct Answer-Communication- Delay or lack of development of language,
diffiulty holding conversations, unusual or repetitive language, play that is not appropriate for
developmental level.
Social interaction- Difficutly using nonverbal behaviors to regulate social interaction, failure to
develop age appropriate peer relationships, little sharing of pleasure, achievements or interests with
others, lack of social or emotional reciprocity.
Restrictied/Repetitive activities- Interests are narrow in focus, overly intense and/or unusual,
unreasonalbe insistence on sameness and folowing familiar routines, repetitive motor mannerisms,
preoccupation with parts of objects.
ASD deficits ✔Correct Answer-Social interaction, communication, repetitive/restricitive beahviors
Triad of Impairments ✔Correct Answer-Deficits in reciprocal social interaction
Deficits in communication
Restricted, repetitive behaviors, interests or activities.
joint attention ✔Correct Answer-Joint Attention and Social Referencing. Joint attention occurs
when two people share interest in an object or event and there is understanding between the two
people that they are both interested in the same object or event.
Hyper/hyposensitive sensory input ✔Correct Answer-Sometimes the senses of autistic children are
in 'hypo', so that they do not really see, hear or feel anything. To stimulate their senses they might
wave their hands around or rock forth and back or make strange noises.
Hypersensitive is the exact opposite, some may get too much sensory input from any of the senses.
Historical definitions of autism ✔Correct Answer-1908- word autism is used to describe
schizophrenic patients who were also withdrawn and self-absorbed.
Kanner (1943) described children who were highly intelligent but "displayed a powerful desire for
aloneness" and rigidity/insistence on sameness
Hans Asperger (1944) difficulty with social interaction
, 1967- refrigerator mothers were the cause of autism
1980-infantile autism listed in the DSM
1987-autism disorder in DSM
1991-federal government makes autism a sped category
1994-Asperger's syndrome added to DSM
2013- DSM-5 folds all subcategories of autism ASD with two categories 1) impaired social
communication and/or interaction. 2) restricted and/or repetitive beahviors
Co-Morbid conditions associated with autism ✔Correct Answer-Mental retardation, learning
difficulties, ADD/ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, CD, Nonverbal learnning disabilities
Asperger's Syndrome Definition ✔Correct Answer-Developmentally appropriate language, but
differences (pragmatics, sentence structure, pronunciation, vocabulary)
Social deficits, Literal interperatation of langauge
Asperger's Syndrome (HFA) common characteristics ✔Correct Answer-He's just as smart as other
folks, but he has more trouble with social skills. He also tends to have an obsessive focus on one
topic or perform the same behaviors again and again.
Diagnostic methods for ASD ✔Correct Answer-Often involves a multidisciplinary team
(pediatrician, psychologist, SPL and OT). Criteria found in the DSM-5
Autism (word) History ✔Correct Answer-The word "autism" comes from the Greek word "autos,"
which means "self." It describes conditions in which a person is removed from social interaction. In
other words, he becomes an "isolated self."
Evidence based treatments for ASD ✔Correct Answer-applied behavior analysis-DTT, FCT, PRT,
Antecedent based interventions
Early intervention, social skills training, cognitive behavioral therapy, medication
AAC, PECS, Video modeling, visual supports, computer aided instruction, parent implemented
intervention
IDEA- First recognized ASD ✔Correct Answer-1990
IDEA ✔Correct Answer-Individuals with Disabilities Education Act-is a law that makes available a
free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and
ensures special education and related services to those children
The IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and
related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants, toddlers, children, and youth with
disabilities.
Infants and toddlers, birth through age 2, with disabilities and their families receive early
intervention services under IDEA Part C. Children and youth ages 3 through 21 receive special
education and related services under IDEA Part B.
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) ✔Correct Answer-when the Individualized Education Program
(IEP) is written, a determination is made regarding the amount of time each student with disabilities
will spend with nondisabled peers both in classroom and all other school activities.
IEP ✔Correct Answer-individualized education plan, a written statement for each child with a
disability, must include:
statement of child's present levels of functional performance