Characteristics of ASD
1 in 59
What is the current rate of ASD (2018)?
Refrigerator mothers
What was the first theory about the cause of autism?
Attention, Tangible, Sensory, and Escape/Avoid
What are functions of behavior?
Token economies
What is a system that utilizes tokens that then can be exchanged for back up reinforcers?
The percentage of people with ASD that also have an intellectual disability
What is 50%?
4 to 1
What is the proportion of boys to girls diagnosed with ASD?
Caused by a high level of this neurotransmitter in the brain
What is the Serotonin Theory?
Occurs when a learner responds to a single stimulus with a group of correct responses (all within the same stimulus class)
What is response generalization?
Errorless learning
What are techniques designed to reduce incorrect responding?
The percentage of people with ASD who also have savant syndrome
What is approximately 10%?
Standard Celeration Chart
What is the type of graph used for precision teaching?
Another name for Leaky Gut Syndrome
What is Opiod Excess Theory?
S-Delta
What is a stimulus that when present signals that a response will not be reinforced?
Discriminative stimulus, prompt, response, consequence, inter-trial pause
What are components of a discrete trial?
The percentage of people with ASD that also have seizures?
What is 46%?
Hypersensitivity to touch
What is tactile defensiveness?
What is the Yeast Infection Theory?
Includes incidental teaching, pivotal response training, and milieu stratgies
What is Natural Environment Training?
Differential reinforcement of successive approximations to a terminal behavior
What is shaping?
The percentage of people attending the JRC that no longer used psychotic medication
What is 66%?
Responds to only a part of a cue often an irrelevant feature
What is overselectivity?
Theory that communication with different parts of the brain is impaired and disrupts higher functions
What is the Under-Connectivity Theory?
acquisition, fluency, maintenance, and generalization
What are the phases of learning?
Systematic removal of prompts so a behavior comes under the control of the original discriminative stimulus
What is fading?
The treatment cost for individuals with ASD across their lifetime?
What is $3.2 million?