AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Developmental milestones: Movement/physical - ✔✔-2M holds head up on tummy
-4M push up to elbows on tummy
-6M sits while leaving on hands
-9M sits without support
-1Y stands without support, pinch grasp
-15M few independent steps
-18M walks and climbs without help
-2Y kicks, runs, stairs, spoon without support
-30M twists (list), jumps
-3Y fork
-4Y typical pencil grasp, unbuttons, catches, serves self food/water with help
-5Y 1 foot hop, buttons
✔✔Autism diagnostic process - ✔✔1. Monitor development: Parents follow
developmental milestones and recognize risk factors
2. Development screening: All kids at 9, 18, and 30 months. ASD screenings at 19 and
24 months for all kids
3. Development diagnosis: Formal evaluation conducted by speacialist
✔✔QABA Code of Ethics - ✔✔1.0 Compliance
2.0 Competence
,3.0 Privacy/confidentiality
4.0 Provision of services
5.0 Responsibility to clients and client's rights
6.0 Human relations
7.0 Supervision and training
8.0 Record keeping and fees
9.0 Public statements
10.0 Research
✔✔HIPAA - ✔✔Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996) is a set of
national standards for electronic healthcare transactions and code sets, unique health
identifiers, and security
✔✔HIPAA Regulations: Confidentiality - ✔✔Health information cannot be used of
shared without your written permission
✔✔HIPAA Regulations: Confidentiality limitations - ✔✔Personal use, written consent to
release information, law enforcement for judicial proceedings, emergency situations to
treat someone in immediate danger, and state law contradictions
✔✔HIPAA Regulations: Mandated reporting - ✔✔Any professional that works with
children must report suspected abuse or neglect to the appropriate authorities. If person
knowingly and willfully fails to do so shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
✔✔HIPAA Regulations: Reportable documents - ✔✔Protected health information (PHI)
is rendered unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals if one
or more has occurred:
- Electronic PHI is encrypted as low probability of assigning meaning without use of
confidential process or key
- Electronic PHI have been cleared, purged, or destroyed and the PHI cannot be
retrieved
- Physical PHI has been shredded or destroyed such that the PHI cannot be read or
reconstructed (redaction is not enough)
If none of these have occurred the release of these documents is reportable
✔✔HIPAA Regulations: Duty to warn - ✔✔If provider determines that there is serious
and imminent threat of a patient physically harming self or others, HIPPA would permit
the provider to warn the appropriate person(s) of the threat, consistent with their
professional ethical obligations and state law
✔✔HIPAA Regulations: Duty to protect - ✔✔Medical providers must protect and secure
PHI
✔✔Educational Laws: IDEA - ✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (1990) is a
law that makes publish education free and available to eligible children (age 0-21) with
, disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to
those children. Governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention,
special education, and related services
✔✔Educational Laws: LRE - ✔✔A principle with IDEA. Least Restrictive Environment
means kids who get special education should be in the same classrooms as other kids
as much as possible
✔✔Educational Laws: Disabled Children - ✔✔-Specific learning disability (SLD) (e.g.,
Dyslexia)
-Speech or language impairment
-Other health impairment (e.g., ADHD, epilepsy, Tourette syndrome)
-ASD
-Intellectual disabilities (e.g., Down Syndrome)
-Emotional disturbance (e.g., Anxiety, Bipolar, Oppositional defiant disorder)
-Developmental delay, multiple disabilities
-Hearing impairment (e.g., deafness)
-Vision impairment (e.g., blindness, NOT kids with glasses that corrects vision)
-Orthopedic impairments (e.g., issues with bones, joints, muscles, cerebral palsy)
-Traumatic brain injury
✔✔Educational Laws: IEP - ✔✔Individualized Education Program. A legal document
that is renewed every year. Describes student's current level, strengths, needs, and
measurable goals
✔✔Educational Laws: ADA - ✔✔The Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) is a civil
rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in many areas
of public life (e.g., jobs, schools, transportation, and public/private spaces open to the
general public). Ensures people with disabilities get the same rights and opportunities
as everyone else. Not school specific
✔✔Educational Laws: Rehabilitation Act - ✔✔A federal legislation that authorizes the
formula grant programs of vocational rehabilitation, supported employment,
independent living, and client assistance. It is concerning rights, advocacy, access, and
protections for individuals with disabilities. Prohibits discrimination on the basis of
disability in programs conducted and funded by the federal government. Not school
specific.
✔✔Educational Laws: 504 Plan - ✔✔Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act protected
students from discrimination by public schools, any college, trade schools or private
schools that get federal funding. A written 504 plan may include accommodations,
assistive technology, and/or school services
✔✔Positive behavior supports - ✔✔A set of research-based strategies used to increase
quality of life and decrease PBx by teaching new skills and making changes in a