QASP EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (2024 –
2025) WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
Minimum supervision by a BCBA - 1 hour/month
QASP will demonstrate - trustworthiness, honesty, fairness and sincerity
Non-discrimination policy - The QABA Credentialing Board will not discriminate against
applicants, candidates or certificants on the basis of race, color, gender (including
gender identity and gender expression), religion, age, marital status, registered
domestic partner status, disability, socioeconomic or ethnic background, sexual
orientation, genetic information, veteran status or national origin, or any other
characteristic protected by law.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) - A disorder characterized by deficits in social
relatedness and communication skills that are often accompanied by repetitive,
ritualistic behavior.
ASD characteristics - Communication- Delay or lack of development of language,
diffiulty holding conversations, unusual or repetitive language, play that is not
appropriate for developmental level.
Social interaction- Difficutly using nonverbal behaviors to regulate social interaction,
failure to develop age appropriate peer relationships, little sharing of pleasure,
achievements or interests with others, lack of social or emotional reciprocity.
Restrictied/Repetitive activities- Interests are narrow in focus, overly intense and/or
unusual, unreasonalbe insistence on sameness and folowing familiar routines, repetitive
motor mannerisms, preoccupation with parts of objects.
ASD deficits - Social interaction, communication, repetitive/restricitive beahviors
Triad of Impairments - Deficits in reciprocal social interaction
Deficits in communication
, Restricted, repetitive behaviors, interests or activities.
joint attention - Joint Attention and Social Referencing. Joint attention occurs when two
people share interest in an object or event and there is understanding between the two
people that they are both interested in the same object or event.
Hyper/hyposensitive sensory input - Sometimes the senses of autistic children are in
'hypo', so that they do not really see, hear or feel anything. To stimulate their senses
they might wave their hands around or rock forth and back or make strange noises.
Hypersensitive is the exact opposite, some may get too much sensory input from any of
the senses.
Historical definitions of autism - 1908- word autism is used to describe schizophrenic
patients who were also withdrawn and self-absorbed.
Kanner (1943) described children who were highly intelligent but "displayed a powerful
desire for aloneness" and rigidity/insistence on sameness
Hans Asperger (1944) difficulty with social interaction
1967- refrigerator mothers were the cause of autism
1980-infantile autism listed in the DSM
1987-autism disorder in DSM
1991-federal government makes autism a sped category
1994-Asperger's syndrome added to DSM
2013- DSM-5 folds all subcategories of autism ASD with two categories 1) impaired
social communication and/or interaction. 2) restricted and/or repetitive beahviors
Co-Morbid conditions associated with autism - Mental retardation, learning difficulties,
ADD/ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, CD, Nonverbal learnning disabilities
Asperger's Syndrome Definition - Developmentally appropriate language, but
differences (pragmatics, sentence structure, pronunciation, vocabulary)
Social deficits, Literal interperatation of langauge
Asperger's Syndrome (HFA) common characteristics - He's just as smart as other folks,
but he has more trouble with social skills. He also tends to have an obsessive focus on
one topic or perform the same behaviors again and again.
Diagnostic methods for ASD - Often involves a multidisciplinary team (pediatrician,
psychologist, SPL and OT). Criteria found in the DSM-5
Autism (word) History - The word "autism" comes from the Greek word "autos," which
means "self." It describes conditions in which a person is removed from social
interaction. In other words, he becomes an "isolated self."
Evidence based treatments for ASD - applied behavior analysis-DTT, FCT, PRT,
Antecedent based interventions
