pivotal behavior - ANSWER A behavior that, when learned, produces corresponding modifications or covariation in other untrained behaviors. Pivotal Response Training (PRT) - ANSWER Targets increasing social-communicative repertoires and the child's responsiveness to the environment. Focuses not only on language, but also on motivation, self-regulation, responding to multiple cues, and self-initiation of social interactions functional communication training - ANSWER An antecedent intervention in which an appropriate communicative behavior is taught as a replacement behavior for problem behavior usually evoked by an establishing operation (EO). TEACCH - ANSWER A well research program used with individuals with ASD. The program emphasizes language development and uses a variety of visual cues to facilitate language development. Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) - ANSWER Special education term used to describe the written plan used to address problem behavior that includes positive behavioral interventions, strategies and support. May include program modifications and supplementary aids and services. functions of behavior - ANSWER What the client is accessing or escaping by engaging in the problem behavior Access, attention, escape, automatic time-out - ANSWER A disciplinary technique in which a child is separated from other people for a specified time. Should only be used if the function of the problem behavior is attention (peer, adult). Challenging behaviors - ANSWER Destructive and/or disruptive such as: hitting, screaming, biting, and swearing. positive programming - ANSWER longitudinal, instructional program designed to give the learner greater skills and competencies for the purpose of controlling or eliminating problem behavior in order to facilitate and enhance social integration. In this sense it is based on a functional analysis of the preventing problem and involves the systematic manipulation of stimulus conditions, consequences, instructional stimuli and other variables in an effort to QASP Test Questions with Answers – Updated 2024/2025 | Verified establish the new, more adaptive behavioral repertoire. positive behavior support plan - ANSWER Typical plans involve an objective for the intervention, prevention strategies, replacement behaviors, reinforcers, attention to what should not be reinforced, and ways to monitor children's progress delivering consequences - ANSWER immediacy operational definition - ANSWER a statement of the procedures used to define research variables. The procedures included in definitions should be repeatable by anyone or at least by peers. onset and offset behavior - ANSWER Behavior must have a defined beginning and end added to the definition. Doing so increases the strength of your intervention by increasing the likelihood of accurate measurement frequency/rate - ANSWER Ratio of count per observation time baseline data - ANSWER information gathered by scientists to be used as a starting point to compare changes after the implementation of the independent variable topography - ANSWER what a behavior looks like generallization - ANSWER intervention can only be deemed a success if change can be shown in different environments and with multiple people evidence based - ANSWER description of medical techniques or practices that are supported by scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy, rather than merely on supposition and tradition. advocacy - ANSWER Quality advocacy services are person-centered and developed using a co-production approach that aims to maximize the participation of people who use services and their carers person centered planning - ANSWER a method of planning for people with disabilities that places the person and his family at the center of the planning process seeks to build a support network, increase independence and connect to the community Circle of support - ANSWER meeting of extended family, friends, service providers, etc. to ensure well-being of a child about to age out of cps care essential lifestyle plans - ANSWER ELP is a guided process for learning how someone wants to live and for developing a plan to help make it happen. It's also: A snapshot of how someone wants to live today, serving as a blueprint for how to support someone tomorrow; A way of organizing and communicating what is important to an individual; A flexible process that can be used in combination with other person centered techniques; A way of making sure that the person is heard, regardless of the severity of disability. QASP will demonstrate - ANSWER trustworthiness, honesty, fairness and sincerity Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) - ANSWER A disorder characterized by deficits in social relatedness and communication skills that are often accompanied by repetitive, ritualistic behavior. ASD deficits - ANSWER Social interaction, communication, repetitive/restricitive beahviors Triad of Impairments - ANSWER Deficits in reciprocal social interaction Deficits in communication Restricted, repetitive behaviors, interests or activities. joint attention - ANSWER 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.Less likely to use gestures or eye contact as a means of sharing interest and directing interactional partners' attention to object of interest •Instrumental use less likely to be impaired Autism (word) History - ANSWER 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." IDEA- First recognized ASD - ANSWER 1990 Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) - ANSWER when the Individualized Education Program (IEP) is written, a determination is made regarding the amount of time each student with disabilities will spend with nondisabled peers both in classroom and all other school activities. Antecedent - ANSWER An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest. Consequence - ANSWER A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest.
