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ABAT Exam Study Guide with Complete
Solutions
ASD and common characteristics and deficits - Correct Answer✔️✔️-impaired
communication, impaired reciprocal social interaction and restricted, repetitive and
stereotyped patterns of behaviors or interests.
Autism as a spectrum disorder with a triad of primary impairments - Correct Answer✔️✔️-
Social and Emotional Interaction: Standing too close to people, unaware of different
ways of interacting with others, has desire to have friends and relationships but
struggles to initiate them
Imagination and Flexibility of Thought: does not understand understand others points of
view or feelings, takes everything literally, and agitated by change in routine
Social Communication and Language: asks repetitive questions, cannot 'read between
the lives' of what people mean, communicates for one needs rather than for 'social'
engagement, and makes factual comments inappropriate to the context
'Red flags' used in early diagnosis - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Any loss of speech, babbling,
gestures or social skills should be taken very seriously, as regression is a major red flag
for autism.
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Overview of diagnosis; how and when - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Doctors look at the child's
developmental history and behavior to make a diagnosis. ASD can sometimes be
detected at 18 months or younger. By age 2, a diagnosis by an experienced
professional can be considered very reliable. However, many children do not receive a
final diagnosis until much older.
Identify risk factors to ASD - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Your child's sex. Boys are about four
times more likely to develop autism spectrum disorder than girls are.
Family history. Families who have one child with autism spectrum disorder have an
increased risk of having another child with the disorder. ...
Other disorders. ...
Extremely preterm babies. ...
Parents' ages
Pragmatic Language - Correct Answer✔️✔️-the use of appropriate communication in
social situations (knowing what to say, how to say it, and when to say it)
Receptive Language - Correct Answer✔️✔️-the understanding of information provided in
a variety of ways such as sounds and words; movement and gestures; and signs and
symbols.
Expressive Language - Correct Answer✔️✔️-our ability to communicate our thoughts and
feelings through words, gestures, signs, and/or symbols
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Sensory-Motor - Correct Answer✔️✔️-the process whereby a child gains use and
coordination of his/her muscles of the trunk, arms, legs and hands (motor development),
and begins to experience (through sensory input) the environment through sight,
sounds, smell, taste and hearing
Social Skills - Correct Answer✔️✔️-the skills we use everyday to interact and
communicate with others. They include verbal and non-verbal communication, such as
speech, gesture, facial expression and body language.
Joint Attention - Correct Answer✔️✔️-When the child points to something, not because
they want it, but to show it to someone for a social purpose.
Stereotypy - Correct Answer✔️✔️-suppressible, repetitive, rhythmical, coordinated,
purposeless, fixed, and nonfunctional pattern of movements.
Disorders commonly associated in differential diagnosis, such as learning disabilities,
processing disorders, etc. - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Learning Disabilities: Learning
disabilities are disorders that affect the ability to understand or use spoken or written
language, do mathematical calculations, coordinate movements, or direct attention.
Processing Disorders: are conditions in which the brain has difficulty receiving and
responding to information that comes through the senses.
Identify comorbid disorders associated with ASD - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Anxiety, ADHD,
Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, Down Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome,
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