CSD Comprehensive Exam Review – Augmentative and Alternative Communication Disorders
– study guide and exam preparation material
What are the 2 characterizations of ASD? - ANS ✔✔1. Deficits in social communication
2. Restricted interests
What is ICD-10 used for? - ANS ✔✔1. Used for billing codes (asks for this criteria for funding
purposes)
2. For billing, therapy and evaluation reports
What is the criteria for a DSM-5 code? - ANS ✔✔1. markedly abnormal or impaired
development
2. Must affect daily life
What does IDEA stand for - ANS ✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act
(IDEA)
Autism spectrum disorder is defined as a developmental disability significantly affecting what
areas? - ANS ✔✔1. Verbal communication (e.g., look at all 5 domains of language, inference
abilities)
2. Nonverbal communication (e.g., facial expression, body language, posture, eye contact)
3. Social interaction (e.g., theory of mind, turn-taking, peer networks, number of friends,
quality of friendships, understanding of what friends are and what a friendship is)
,When does ASD typically develop by? - ANS ✔✔3:0 years of age
Which gender has a predisposition to ASD? - ANS ✔✔Males (i.e., X chromosome, poor diagnosis
of females on the spectrum - different symptom profile)
Why has there been in increase in ASD diagnosis? - ANS ✔✔1. Diagnostics have improved
2. Advocacy groups to help identify ASD
3. Stigma with disorder has gone down so people are more willing to help/support individuals
with ASD
4. Early intervention efforts identify and advocate for ASD
Define and describe ABA - ANS ✔✔Applied behavior analaysis
1. Antecedents (what happens before the behavior) - Reliable triggers of behavior
2. The behavior - Operational definition of the behavior
3. Consequences - what happens after the behavior
Name 11 different treatment approaches for ASD - ANS ✔✔1. AAC
2. cognitive behavior therapy (CBT)
3. Denver model
4. discrete trial training
, 5. facilitated communication/rapid prompting method
6. incidental teaching
7. Milieu therapy
8. caregiver/parent mediated intervention
9. peer mediated intervention
10. positive behavior supports (PBIS)
11. self-management strategies
Define neurodevelopment in relation to ASD - ANS ✔✔Means that ASD is not acquired it is
developed
what type of diagnosis is ASD - ANS ✔✔a psychological diagnosis (i.e., has more
weight/attachments and implications for daily life compared to other disorders)
How are intellectual disabilities (ID) defined - ANS ✔✔1. Intellectual functioning
2. Adaptive behavior
Describe adaptive behavior - ANS ✔✔A collection of skills broken into three categories (a wide
variety of things e.g., independent navigation - get around school, home environment, toileting,
etc.)
1. Cognitive skills
2. Social skills
3. Practical skills
Define specific learning disability (SLD) - ANS ✔✔1. Spend a lot of time here differentiating
these from intellectual disability
– study guide and exam preparation material
What are the 2 characterizations of ASD? - ANS ✔✔1. Deficits in social communication
2. Restricted interests
What is ICD-10 used for? - ANS ✔✔1. Used for billing codes (asks for this criteria for funding
purposes)
2. For billing, therapy and evaluation reports
What is the criteria for a DSM-5 code? - ANS ✔✔1. markedly abnormal or impaired
development
2. Must affect daily life
What does IDEA stand for - ANS ✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act
(IDEA)
Autism spectrum disorder is defined as a developmental disability significantly affecting what
areas? - ANS ✔✔1. Verbal communication (e.g., look at all 5 domains of language, inference
abilities)
2. Nonverbal communication (e.g., facial expression, body language, posture, eye contact)
3. Social interaction (e.g., theory of mind, turn-taking, peer networks, number of friends,
quality of friendships, understanding of what friends are and what a friendship is)
,When does ASD typically develop by? - ANS ✔✔3:0 years of age
Which gender has a predisposition to ASD? - ANS ✔✔Males (i.e., X chromosome, poor diagnosis
of females on the spectrum - different symptom profile)
Why has there been in increase in ASD diagnosis? - ANS ✔✔1. Diagnostics have improved
2. Advocacy groups to help identify ASD
3. Stigma with disorder has gone down so people are more willing to help/support individuals
with ASD
4. Early intervention efforts identify and advocate for ASD
Define and describe ABA - ANS ✔✔Applied behavior analaysis
1. Antecedents (what happens before the behavior) - Reliable triggers of behavior
2. The behavior - Operational definition of the behavior
3. Consequences - what happens after the behavior
Name 11 different treatment approaches for ASD - ANS ✔✔1. AAC
2. cognitive behavior therapy (CBT)
3. Denver model
4. discrete trial training
, 5. facilitated communication/rapid prompting method
6. incidental teaching
7. Milieu therapy
8. caregiver/parent mediated intervention
9. peer mediated intervention
10. positive behavior supports (PBIS)
11. self-management strategies
Define neurodevelopment in relation to ASD - ANS ✔✔Means that ASD is not acquired it is
developed
what type of diagnosis is ASD - ANS ✔✔a psychological diagnosis (i.e., has more
weight/attachments and implications for daily life compared to other disorders)
How are intellectual disabilities (ID) defined - ANS ✔✔1. Intellectual functioning
2. Adaptive behavior
Describe adaptive behavior - ANS ✔✔A collection of skills broken into three categories (a wide
variety of things e.g., independent navigation - get around school, home environment, toileting,
etc.)
1. Cognitive skills
2. Social skills
3. Practical skills
Define specific learning disability (SLD) - ANS ✔✔1. Spend a lot of time here differentiating
these from intellectual disability
