Indicators
Special Services
Adaptations
Social Skills
Fun Facts
100
Delays in at least one of the three focal areas for students with autism occur prior to age ____?
What is age three?
100
parents, classroom teachers, special educators, and teacher assistants.
What are the people associated with a behavior plan?
100
The most strongly recommended approach for teaching students with autism
What is Visual Approach?
100
An early indicator of ASD
What is lack of joint attention at an early age
100
Autism is a life-long developmental disability that prevents people from understanding what they see, hear, and otherwise sense. This results in severe problems with social relationships, communication, and behavior.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
200
the student has impairments in social interactions and patterns of behavior
What is Asperger's Syndrome
200
• likes and dislikes • fears and frustrations • communication skills • strengths and needs • how the student interacts socially • the typical responses to sensory stimuli
What is significant information in the assessment process?
200
a collaborative team approach to the development and monitoring of the plan to support a student
What is Integrated Case Management?
200
the result of other characteristics associated with autism, such as attending difficulties, problems with interpreting verbal information, limited verbal expression, impairment in social skills, and different responses to sensory stimulation.
What is a problem behavior?
200
• communication characteristics • social interaction characteristics • unusual behaviour characteristics • learning characteristics
What are characteristics associated with autism?
300
1. Social Interaction 2. Communication 3.Restrictive, Repetitive, and stereotyped patters of behavior
What are the three main indicators for children with Autism?
300
the process of identifying the function or functions that a specific behaviour serves for the individual, and is based on the premise that all behaviour serves some purpose.
What is functional assessment of behaviors?
300
• Health—life-style, nutrition, or other health needs of the student • Education—academic functioning based on assessment • Identity—language, cultural, and spiritual aspects of the young person’s life • Family and social relationships—relationships with family members, including extended family, and friends • Social/emotional/behavioural— behaviour needs, social skills • Self-care skills—functional and independence skills • Other (Vocational—especially for older students, job and career possibilities and transitions)
What are the main areas of a student's life?
300
• When and where does the behaviour occur? • What is going on in the setting when the behaviour occurs? • Who else is involved or near the student?
What are contributing factors to behavior?
300
• gain attention, or communicate a need or want • gain a tangible consequence escape from an unpleasant situation • gain a sensory consequence • self-regulate • make a comment or declaration • release tension
What is communication function?
400
a methodology where educational success is evaluated by students' progress across key indicators in the curriculum with the primary purpose of determining students' instructional needs
What is curriculum-based assessment?
400
a strategy which rewards students behavior. This is effective for teaching a delay in obtaining preferred items or activities
What is a token system?
400
Three of the six ways to incorporate visual supports
What are: • organize the student’s activity—daily schedules, mini-schedules, activity checklists, calendars, choice boards • provide directions or instructions for the student—visual display of classroom assignments, file cards with directions for specific tasks and activities, pictographs and written instructions for learning new information • assist the student in understanding the organization of the environment— labelling of objects, containers, signs, lists, charts, and messages • support appropriate behaviour—posted rules and representations to signal steps of routines • teach social skills—pictorial representations of social stories depicting a social situation with the social cues and appropriate responses, developed for a specific situation for the individual student (for further information on social stories, see the section in this chapter on strategies for teaching social skills) • teach self-control—pictographs, which provide a cue for behaviour expectations
400
due to the avoidance of peer interactions, it is a good idea to place the student with ASD in a _____ ______ in the classroom. This allows the student to be near peers for any group activity.
What is central location?
400
All autistic children have a "special talent"?
False
500
Three of the seven assessment practices for students with autism
What are: 1. The Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) 2. The Gilliam Autism Rating Scale (GARS-2) 3. Gilliam Asperger's Disorder Scale (GADS) 4. Autism Screening Instrument for Educational Planning 5. Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills (ABLLS-2) 6. Psychoeducational Profile 7. Adolescent and Adult Psychoeducational Profile (AAPEP)
500
a system for the understanding and improvement of human behavior focusing on objectively defined and measurable behaviors of social significance
What is applied behavior analysis?
500
most students with autism must have what for their daily activities?
What is a schedule?
500
The use of social stories to be an effective method of facilitating appropriate peer interaction. Individualized stories are written to describe
What is the situation and the ideal behavior of the main character?
500
most students with autism prefer what type of learning method
What is visual?