Five strategies that are essential for providing effective education for young children
with autism in inclusive classrooms are teaching communication and social
competence; using instructional strategies that maintain the class's natural flow;
teaching and providing opportunities for independence; building a classroom community
that includes all children; and which of the following?
A. The use of applied behavior analysis
B. The use of discrete trial training
C. The use of visual cues and supports
D. Promoting generalization and maintenance of skills
Providing systematic instruction in imitation skills and planning opportunities for
students with disabilities to interact directly with typically developing peers are strategies
for which of the following?
A. Teaching and providing opportunities for independence
B. Using instructional strategies that maintain the natural flow of the class
C. Teaching communication and social competence to students with autism
D. Promoting generalization and maintenance of skills
Using naturalistic teaching procedures and using different cues and prompts to ensure
that each child receives adequate support are two ways of doing which of the following?
A. Teaching communication and social competence
B. Using instructional strategies that maintain the child's natural flow
C. Teaching and providing opportunities for independence
D. Promoting generalization and maintenance of skills
Using activities that will engage children with a large range of abilities and allowing
every child to have a turn and play a role are ways to do which of the following?
A. Build a classroom community that includes all children
B. Promote generalization and maintenance of skills
C. Teach communication and social competence
D. Teach and provide opportunities for independence
What role has intensive, behaviorally-based early intervention played in educating
students with autism?
A. It has helped some children with autism learn communication, language, and social
,skills so that they have been able to succeed in general education classrooms.
B. It has helped decrease the symptoms of autism.
C. It has caused an increase in behavior problems when the students reach school age.
D. It has helped students with autism decrease self-injurious behavior
What is applied behavior analysis?
A. One-on-one sessions during which a routinized sequence of contrived learning trials
is presented as the teacher and child sit at a table
B. Intensive, behaviorally-based early intervention
C. A scientific approach to designing, conducting, and evaluating instruction based on
empirically verified principles describing functional relationships between events in the
environment and learning
D. Visual cues and prompts that help students to perform skills with greater
independence and accuracy
What is discrete trial training?
A. Intensive, behaviorally-based early intervention
B. Visual cues and prompts that help students to perform skills with greater
independence and accuracy
C. One-on-one sessions during which a routinized sequence of contrived learning trials
is presented as the teacher and child sit at a table
D. A scientific approach to designing, conducting, and evaluating instruction based on
empirically verified principles describing functional relationships between events in the
environment and learning
A wide variety of interventions that involve visual cues and prompts are called which of
the following?
A. Visual supports
B. Applied behavior analysis
C. Instructional accommodation
D. Discrete trial training
Characteristics of autism spectrum disorders may include impaired social relationships,
communication and language deficits, intellectual functioning, and which of the
following?
A. Low IQ scores
B. Low achievement level
C. Reading difficulty
D. Unusual responsiveness to sensory stimuli
What is joint attention?
, A. The ability to hyper focus
B. An early-developing social communication skill in which two people use gestures and
gazes to share attention with respect to interesting objects or events
C. The ability to pay attention to two speakers at the same time
D. The ability to multitask
What is echolalia?
A. Selective mutism
B. Another name for stuttering
C. Speaking in simple utterances, not words
D. Verbatim repetitions of what people around the speaker have said
Autistic savant means which of the following?
A. Severe communication problems
B. A person with extraordinary ability in the areas of memorization, mathematical
calculations, or musical ability while functioning at the mental retardation level in all
other areas
C. Severe mental retardation in all areas
D. Severe deficits in adaptive behavior skills
A related group of conditions that has also been known as a pervasive developmental
disorder (PDD) is which of the following?
A. Childhood disintegrative disorder
B. Autism spectrum disorders
C. Asperger syndrome
D. Rett Syndrome
Autistic disorder is marked by three defining features with onset before age three: a
qualitative impairment of social interaction, a qualitative impairment of communication,
and which of the following?
A. Reading difficulty
B. Low achievement level
C. Low IQ scores
D. Restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior
Asperger syndrome is which of the following?
A. An autism spectrum disorder that is at the mild end of the spectrum and is
characterized by impairments in the social areas, particularly an inability to understand
how to interact socially
B. A qualitative impairment of social interaction, a qualitative impairment of
communication, and restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior