Theories
Assessment
Intervention
Neurodiversity
Terms to Know
100

Reinforcement and punishment 

What is behaviorism?

100
A type of assessment that compares performance to that of same-age peers based on a bell curve of performance from the standardization sample 

What is norm-referenced?

100

An intervention technique in which a caregiver or clinician describes what they are doing

What is self talk?

100

Neurodiversity

What is the idea that brain variations is natural and expected rather than a disorder. This variation creates differences in how people experience and interact with the world.

100

A child who requires minimal prompting or support to succeed at performing a skill is said to be operating in this

What is their zone of proximal development?

200

You are born with a language acquisition device

What is nativist?

200

A type of assessment where the acquisition of specific skills are measured in a binary through observation, self report, or elicitation of the skill

What is criterion referernced?

200

An intervention technique in which a caregiver or clinician describes their own actions as well as the actions of the child while they work on the same activity

What is parallel talk?
200

An intervention technique that violates bodily autonomy and is not considered neurodiversity affirming

what is hand over hand prompting?

200

This construct refers to the degree to which a test is able to accurately identify people with a disorder as having a disorder

What is sensitivity?

300
The desire to communicate with others drives this theory of development

What is social interactionist?

300

A type of assessment that follows a test-teach-retest protocol

What is dynamic?

300

An acronym that outlines the essential components of intervention goals

What is SMART?

300
An effective yet nuanced strategy for increasing a desired behavior that can lead to prompt dependence and decreases in intrinsic motivation 

What is reinforcement?

300
The test measures what it is intended to test

What is validity?

400

True or False: Theories can be applied to clinical practice, each with their own appropriate scenarios

What is true?

400
A type of assessment that is not appropriate for progress monitoring

What is norm-referenced?

400

An intervention technique in which a caregiver or clinician repeats what the child has said with the addition of new words or grammatical features

What is expansion?

400

The neurodiversity movement calls for increased recognition of this part of evidence-based practice

what is client perspectives?

400

The test yields consistent results between administrations 

What is reliability?

500

This theory of development might provide a theoretical background to support co-treating children with global developmental delays based on the assumption that developmental milestones progress in tandem

What is cognitive constructivist?

500
A type of authentic assessment in which various measures can be derived from a naturalistic conversation 

What is a language sample analysis?

500

Describes methods of intervention that progress from clinician driven to child-led

What is the continuum of naturalness?

500

Labels that should be avoided but are often used to describe 'how disabled' an autistic person is (not neurodiversity affirming)

What are functioning labels?

500

This construct refers to the degree to which a test is able to accurately identify people without a disorder as not having a disorder

What is specificity?