Symptoms/Goal Area
Which gender has higher rates of autism?
Extra points if you can tell us the ratio!
Males; 4:1 male to female ratio
PPf sits and plays with the barn animals in close proximity of DSa who is also playing with the same toys. They are not interacting but are doing really well tolerating the peer in their space. What type of play is this?
Parallel
This type of play relates to when clients use toys based on their intended function
Functional Play
An antecedent strategy that evokes a response when an Sd is presented
Prompting
Behavior goes where reinforcement __________
Flows
At what age do you begin observing the first few symptoms of autism? (you can give a range month/years)
12-18 months
You can run programs like turn taking, responding and initiating to peer greetings, responding and initiating to peer mands, waiting tolerance during this play as 2 or more clients engage with the same material with a shared goal to complete.
Cooperative Play
This type of play revolves around manipulating sensorimotor activities and increasing the repertoire of toys and activities.
Cause and Effect play (pig/coin toy/pegboards/pop up toys/puzzles etc).
This is when you reinforce approximations of a behavior until the terminal behavior is reached.
Shaping
What do you call a witch who lives at the beach?
A Sand-witch
Lack of eye contact, deficits in understanding or using gestures, difficulty communicating falls under which goal area?
Non-Verbal Communicative Behavior
Your client is just learning how to play with certain cause and effect toys like the pop up toy, musical instruments etc and is not quite aware of what his/her peers might be doing
Solitary
I find a stick in the playground and pretend to be a wizard making different potions. I also make some soup for my friends and offer it to them. What type of play is this?
Imaginary Play
Reinforcing JAw for putting the puzzle piece where it belongs but not reinforcing him for lining up his puzzle pieces on the floor.
Differential Reinforcement
Who is the father of ABA?
Skinner
JSi always follows the same routine when playing with his/her favorite toys. They will make a circular train track and push the trains on the carpet next to the track. What goal area does this fall under/what are they exhibiting?
Goal Area: Flexibility
Symptom: Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests or activities
During associative and cooperative play what does the technician act as?
A shadow :)
Socio-Dramatic
Required to implement a chaining procedure where a complex skill is broken into smaller, teachable units (i.e using the visuals to teach a client to use the tools to fix a car)
Task Analysis
'Those reinforcers don't work?' What's the problem with this statement
Then they aren't reinforcers!
What manual is used to diagnose symptoms of autism (full points for those who can give more than the acronym) and can a BCBA diagnose a client?
DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
No!
GSa sees his peers swinging outside on the jungle gym and decides to go play on it too. The client goes up to his peers and asks if they would like to go down the slide with him.
Associative Play
A toddler shows their mom their stuffed bunny. They say, “bunny owie!” and point to the bunny’s leg. He then puts the bunny in his moms shoe and makes airplane sounds while transporting the bunny to the vet. What type of play is this?
Pretend play/symbolic play
A stimulus that is presented (by the technician) in an effort to evoke the imitative behavior from the client
Modeling
What is a skeletons favorite instrument?