ABA therapy training Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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ABA
Institution
ABA
Common systems of ASD
· Insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines or ritualized patterns of
behavior
· Difficulty expressing needs, using gestures or pointing instead of words, or not
pointing or using gestures
· Repeating words or phrases (echolalia) in place of normal,...
ABA therapy training Questions and
Correct Answers the Latest Update
Common systems of ASD
✓ · Insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines or ritualized patterns of
behavior
✓ · Difficulty expressing needs, using gestures or pointing instead of words, or not
pointing or using gestures
✓ · Repeating words or phrases (echolalia) in place of normal, responsive language
✓ · Laughing and/or crying for no apparent reason or showing distress for reasons not
apparent to others
✓ · Prefers being alone, aloof manner
✓ · Intense tantrums
✓ · Difficulty interacting with others even when interested, no interest in others,
and/or doesn't respond to others
✓ · Not wanting to cuddle or avoids eye contact
✓ · Difficulty understanding the feelings of others or communicating their own
emotions
✓ · Sustained, repetitive odd play, no imitative play, and/or does not engage in
pretend/interactive play
✓ · Stereotyped or repetitive motor movements
✓ · Obsessed attachment to objects or restrictive, fixated interested on one subject
with abnormal intensity and/or focus
✓ · Hyper or hypo reactivity to sensory input or unusual interests in sensory aspects
✓ · No real fears or danger
✓ · Noticeable physical over activity extreme under activity
✓ · Uneven patterns of development
✓ · Unresponsive to verbal cues or acts as if deaf, but responds to other sounds
✓ · Abnormalities in brain structure or function
✓ · Heredity, genetics, or medical problems
✓ · Childhood vaccinations and food allergies
✓ · Other biological and environmental factors
Prevalence of ASD
✓ · Insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines or ritualized patterns of
behavior
✓ · The CDC reports 1 in 59 U.S. children have been identified with ASD
✓ · Over 3.5 million U.S. children and adults are believed to have some form of ASD
✓ · Rate is growing more than 10-17% per year
✓ · 5 times more likely in boys than girls (1 in 42 boys, 1 in 189 girls)
✓ · Occurs in all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups
✓ · Parents who have a child with ASD have a 2-18% chance of having a second child
who is also affected
✓ · Almost have (46%) of children identified with ASD have average to above average
intellectual disabilities
✓ · The co-occurrence of one or more non-ASD developmental diagnoses (other
developmental, psychiatric, neurological, chromosomal, and genetic diagnoses) is 83%
✓ · Research has shown that a diagnosis of ASD at age 2 can be reliable, valid, and
stable
✓ · On average, most individuals diagnosed with ASD were not diagnosed until after
the age of 4, although studies have shown that parents noticed developmental
problems before their child's first birthday
ABA
✓ Considered a scientifically validated, evidence-based, best practice treatment of
applying the principles of behaviors (reinforcement and punishment) in the real
world while collecting data on specific behaviors. The environment is modified to
encourage appropriate behavior. The goal is to utilize several behavior techniques
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and principles to improve the quality of life for the individuals and the family
Basic Principles of Behavior
✓ · Behavior is a product of the immediate environment
✓ · Behavior is strengthened or weakened by its consequences
✓ · Behavior ultimately responds better to reinforcing consequences than punitive
consequences
✓ · Whether behavior has been strengthened or weakened is known only by future
behavior
Target Behaviors
✓ Behaviors we want to increase, decrease, and/or change described specifically in
detail in order for others to understand it clearly
Three-Term Contingency (ABC)
✓ The contingent relationship between an Antecedent, a Behavior/Response, and the
Consequence
Antecedent
✓ A stimulus or event that comes just before a behavior and triggers or cues the
behavior to occur
Behavior
✓ The response that comes after a stimulus or event
✓ What happened immediately after the behavior that affects the rate of future
behaviors under those or similar conditions
Functions of Behavior
✓ Focuses on why the behavior occurs
The 4 Main Functions of Behavior
✓ 1. Attention/Access to Tangibles-Social Positive Reinforcement-getting attention
from someone or access to something
✓ 2. Escape/Avoidance-Social Negative Reinforcement-escaping or avoiding someone
or a task/activity
✓ 3. Sensory Stimulation-Automatic Positive Reinforcement-stimulating the senses
✓ 4. Pain Attenuation-Automatic Negative Reinforcement-attenuating pain
Behavioral and Environmental Assessments
✓ Conducting observations of a client's behavior in his/her natural environment (home,
school, community settings)
Preference Assessments
✓ Determining what items are most preferred by a client in order to increase the
client's motivation to complete tasks and instructions
✓ o Stimulus preference assessments
✓ o Reinforcement assessments
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