DSM-5
Neurodiversity
Ableism
ABA
Vaccine Controversy
Language and Visual Supports
Sensory
100
Persistent deficits in each of 3 areas related to social communication and 2 areas related to restricted/repetitive behaviors
What are the diagnostic criteria of ASD?
100
The term used to describe a group of people with different neurological systems.
What is neurodiverse?
100
Law that mandated public buildings install accessibility features like ramps and elevators
What is the ADA?
100
Science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied systematically to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for behavior change
What is applied behavior analysis?
100
The author of the controversial study that suggested a link between MMR vaccine and autism
Who is Andrew Wakefield?
100
Any form of behavior that gets a person's wants and/or needs met
What is functional communication?
100
Common prefixes to refer to over and under with regard to sensitivity to stimuli
What are "hyper" and "hypo"?
200
Doesn't play age-appropriate games with friends
What is an example of a deficit related to social communication/interaction?
200
The term used to describe a single person with a neurological system that is somehow different from the "norm" or the majority of people.
What is neurodivergent?
200
Discrimination against neurodivergent and/or disabled people based on the belief that typical/majority abilities are preferred
What is ableism?
200
A controversial scientist and clinician who claimed to use ABA to "fix" or "cure" autistic children to make them "normal"
Who is Lovaas?
200
Not supported by any scientific evidence after dozens of well-designed empirical investigations.
What is the link that MMR vaccines cause autism?
200
A common, but inappropriate, assumption that this type of communication is typical or preferred by a community.
What it is vocal?
200
A common reason that autistics report engaging in self-stimulation.
What is self-soothing, anxiety relief, helps with focusing...?
300
Hand-flapping
What is an example of repetitive motor movement?
300
The person who coined the term "Neurodiversity"
Judy Singer
300
A characteristic graph that is used to visually present a a distribution of some aspect of human behavior, development etc.
What is a bell curve?
300
A controversial punishment procedure that Lovaas used to change behavior, but that is rarely used today (only by 1 school in MA).
What is contingent shock?
300
This was retracted as a result of the scientific community questioning its validity.
What happened to the Wakefield MMR-autism article?
300
Things like a calendar, phone alerts, exit signs, arrows, a clock, a pictorial menu at a restaurant...
What are visual supports that most people rely on to exist in modern society
300
Things like deep pressure, noise-cancelling headphones, dark rooms, free access to walking around a room
What are supports to help people with unique sensory preferences and needs.
400
Spending a great deal of time on the internet reading about cars
What is an example of restricted/fixated interests?
400
Refers to variation in the human brain regarding sociability, learning, attention, mood and other mental functions in a non-pathological sense.”
What is neurodiversity?
400
Generally, the preferred way to refer to someone diagnosed with ASD
What is autistic (instead of person with autism)?
400
*PHOTO DAILY DOUBLE*
A psychologist and scientist who discovered many of the basic principles of human behavior (seen here)
Who is Skinner?
400
A result of the Wakefield study and subsequent media coverage of the supposed link between the MMR vaccine and autism
What is rates of MMR vaccines declined and rates of the measles increased?
400
Gesturing, crying, tantrums, unintelligible vocalizations, pulling, nudging
What are individual forms of communication often used by autistic children?
400
This person referred to her sensory input device as a "squeeze machine"
Who is Temple Grandin?
500
Refusing to wear wool sweaters
What is an example of "hyper"sensitivity to sensory input?
500
A non-clinical term to refer to people whose neurology might be considered "average" or "normal"
What is "neurotypical"?
500
An outdated, and offensive, metaphor for autism, still commonly used by agencies like Autism Speaks among others.
What is a "puzzle to be solved"?
500
A principle of ABA that states that when behavior is followed by something that someone likes they will engage in that behavior more often in the future.
What is reinforcement?
500
The rate of ASD worldwide
What is increasing, but, almost certainly not related to the MMR vaccine?
500
*PICTURE DAILY DOUBLE*
This is an example of a specific type of support often provided to autistic children:
What is a picture activity schedule?
500
This place is an example of a setting that is not tailored and is often traumatic to many autistic children based on the sensory stimulation like smells, noises, uncomfortable seating etc.
What is a typical elementary school classroom?