QASP-S LATEST 2026 EXAMINERS SET
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Triad of impairments (social communication) - ✔✔1. not fully understanding the
meaning of fcaial expressions, common gestures or tone of voice
2. echolalia (repition of what was said)
3. difficulties in understanding jokes & sarcasim
4. making up words
5. unusal pattern of verbal communication
6. inappropiate tone of voice
7. difficult differentiating between "I" and "you"
✔✔Triad of impairments (social imagination) - ✔✔1. difficulty in the development of
imaginative play where a preference for acting out the same scenes each time is noted
2. difficulty in understanding how others think, feel, and react
3. problems with imagination in general
4. problems with predicting actions or events in the future
5. putting up with new or unfamiliar situations
6. understanding concepts such as danger or threat
✔✔Define the 6 attitudes of science - ✔✔1. Determinism
2. Empiricism Analysis
3. Experimentation
4. Replication
,5. Parsimony
6. Philosophical doubt
✔✔Identify joint attention - ✔✔serves as a referencing tool that uses shared gaze
(visually focusing on the same thing) and/or gesture for communication
1. Restricted & repetitive behaviors
2. Repetitive body movements
3. Repetitive motions with objects
✔✔Identify the common characteristics of Autism - ✔✔1. Communication
2. Perseveration
3. Sensitivities
4. Routines/Change in schedule
5. Social Interactions
6. Repetitive Behavior
✔✔Identify behaviors that are key to identifying ASD - ✔✔1. Restricted and repetitive
behaviors
2. Repetitive body movements
3. Repetitive motions with objects
✔✔Eugen Bleuller - ✔✔Used autism to mean morbid self-admiration and withdrawal
within self (used term in 1908).
✔✔Contingent Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcement that depends on responding
✔✔Non-contingent Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcement which occurs regardless of what
a person is oding
✔✔Effective methods to diagnose ASD - ✔✔1. Autism Diagnostic Observation
Schedule (ADOS)
2. Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R)
✔✔Identify deficits associated with ASD - ✔✔1. Behavioral excesses
2. Behavioral deficits
✔✔Behavioral excesses - ✔✔1. self-stimulation (repetitive, stereotypical)
2. high frequency/highly preferred bhx
-resistance to change
3. difficulties with cognitive processing suggest the benefit of a clear predictable
environment
4. prior cognitive preparation (priming)
5. bizarre challenging behaviors
6. extreme or missing fear reaction
7. PICA
, 8. hyperactivity, short attention, impulsivity, tantrums, aggression, SIB
✔✔Behavioral deficits - ✔✔1. inability to relate
2. lack of fucntional language
3. lack communicative intent
- mute (50%) -echolalia -perseveration -prosody (flattened voice tone)
4. pronoun reversals (you/I, he/she)
5. little verbal variety
6. literal interpretation of expressive & receptive language
7. immature grammer
8. limited speech functions
9. splinter skills
✔✔Serial (ASD processing of information) - ✔✔only attend to 1 item
✔✔Parallel (ASD processing of information) - ✔✔attends to multiple items
✔✔Hypersensitive (ASD processing of information) - ✔✔over sensitive (noise, light,
tactile items)
✔✔Environmental Evaluation - ✔✔assessing how physical, social and instructional
environments influence behavior. The goal is to identify environmental factors that may
trigger, reinforce, or maintain behaviors - especially challenging ones and modify the
environment to promote positive behaviors.
✔✔Different kinds of functional behavior assessments - ✔✔1. VB-MAPP
2. ABLLS
3. AFLS
4. PEAK
✔✔Identify common co-morbid diagnoses associated with autism - ✔✔1. Anxiety
2. ADHD
3. Bipolar
4. Depression
5. Epilepsy
6. Sleep disorders
7. Eating challenges
✔✔Define Asperger syndrome - ✔✔developmental disorder related to autism and
characterized by higher than average intellectual ability coupled with impaired social
skills and restrictive, repetitive patterns of interest and activities.
✔✔Common Traits Asperger syndrome - ✔✔1. Social/Communication Traits
2. Behavioural Traits
3. Cognitive Traits
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Triad of impairments (social communication) - ✔✔1. not fully understanding the
meaning of fcaial expressions, common gestures or tone of voice
2. echolalia (repition of what was said)
3. difficulties in understanding jokes & sarcasim
4. making up words
5. unusal pattern of verbal communication
6. inappropiate tone of voice
7. difficult differentiating between "I" and "you"
✔✔Triad of impairments (social imagination) - ✔✔1. difficulty in the development of
imaginative play where a preference for acting out the same scenes each time is noted
2. difficulty in understanding how others think, feel, and react
3. problems with imagination in general
4. problems with predicting actions or events in the future
5. putting up with new or unfamiliar situations
6. understanding concepts such as danger or threat
✔✔Define the 6 attitudes of science - ✔✔1. Determinism
2. Empiricism Analysis
3. Experimentation
4. Replication
,5. Parsimony
6. Philosophical doubt
✔✔Identify joint attention - ✔✔serves as a referencing tool that uses shared gaze
(visually focusing on the same thing) and/or gesture for communication
1. Restricted & repetitive behaviors
2. Repetitive body movements
3. Repetitive motions with objects
✔✔Identify the common characteristics of Autism - ✔✔1. Communication
2. Perseveration
3. Sensitivities
4. Routines/Change in schedule
5. Social Interactions
6. Repetitive Behavior
✔✔Identify behaviors that are key to identifying ASD - ✔✔1. Restricted and repetitive
behaviors
2. Repetitive body movements
3. Repetitive motions with objects
✔✔Eugen Bleuller - ✔✔Used autism to mean morbid self-admiration and withdrawal
within self (used term in 1908).
✔✔Contingent Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcement that depends on responding
✔✔Non-contingent Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcement which occurs regardless of what
a person is oding
✔✔Effective methods to diagnose ASD - ✔✔1. Autism Diagnostic Observation
Schedule (ADOS)
2. Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R)
✔✔Identify deficits associated with ASD - ✔✔1. Behavioral excesses
2. Behavioral deficits
✔✔Behavioral excesses - ✔✔1. self-stimulation (repetitive, stereotypical)
2. high frequency/highly preferred bhx
-resistance to change
3. difficulties with cognitive processing suggest the benefit of a clear predictable
environment
4. prior cognitive preparation (priming)
5. bizarre challenging behaviors
6. extreme or missing fear reaction
7. PICA
, 8. hyperactivity, short attention, impulsivity, tantrums, aggression, SIB
✔✔Behavioral deficits - ✔✔1. inability to relate
2. lack of fucntional language
3. lack communicative intent
- mute (50%) -echolalia -perseveration -prosody (flattened voice tone)
4. pronoun reversals (you/I, he/she)
5. little verbal variety
6. literal interpretation of expressive & receptive language
7. immature grammer
8. limited speech functions
9. splinter skills
✔✔Serial (ASD processing of information) - ✔✔only attend to 1 item
✔✔Parallel (ASD processing of information) - ✔✔attends to multiple items
✔✔Hypersensitive (ASD processing of information) - ✔✔over sensitive (noise, light,
tactile items)
✔✔Environmental Evaluation - ✔✔assessing how physical, social and instructional
environments influence behavior. The goal is to identify environmental factors that may
trigger, reinforce, or maintain behaviors - especially challenging ones and modify the
environment to promote positive behaviors.
✔✔Different kinds of functional behavior assessments - ✔✔1. VB-MAPP
2. ABLLS
3. AFLS
4. PEAK
✔✔Identify common co-morbid diagnoses associated with autism - ✔✔1. Anxiety
2. ADHD
3. Bipolar
4. Depression
5. Epilepsy
6. Sleep disorders
7. Eating challenges
✔✔Define Asperger syndrome - ✔✔developmental disorder related to autism and
characterized by higher than average intellectual ability coupled with impaired social
skills and restrictive, repetitive patterns of interest and activities.
✔✔Common Traits Asperger syndrome - ✔✔1. Social/Communication Traits
2. Behavioural Traits
3. Cognitive Traits
