What is the length of time you wait to modify a child"s program?
100
Clinical psychologist at UCLA who developed the techniques used in Discrete Trial Teaching.
Who is Ivar Lovaas?
100
This behavioral concept is succinctly captured in the phrases "I want this." "I don't want this." "It feels good."
What is function?
100
This assessment looks at 6 areas: Basic Living, Home, Community Participation, School, Independent Living, Vocational.
What is the Assessment of Functional Living Skills (AFLS)?
100
This autistic professor of animal sciences was
played by Clare Danes in the docu-drama about her life.
Who is Temple Grandin?
200
Usually indicated by a blue (or sometimes dotted) line on a red book graph.
What is a phase change?
200
Prior to beginning discrete trials, this should be conducted to better identify a child's learning profile and needs.
What is an assessment?
200
This is the actual certification held by an individual who is a fully licensed behaviorist.
What is a BCBA?
200
This assessment provides a comprehensive developmental profile for children ages birth - 6 years of age.
What is the hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP)?
200
In this 1994 film starring Richard Dreyfuss, John Lithgow, and Ben Faulkner, an autistic boy witnesses his parents brutal murder
What is Silent Fall?
300
Eye contact fall under this category in the red binders.
What is "Learning Readiness?"
300
A cornerstone of DTT is to engage in this activity to break down skills into small teachable steps.
What is task analysis?
300
These actions/concepts are generally referred to as the A,B,Cs of behavioral analysis.
What are the antecedent, behavior, and consequence?
300
This assessment is based on the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis and can be administered to children beginning at the age of 2 years.
What is the Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills (ABLLS)?
300
In this 2006 film two young adults with Asperger's fall in love and work to figure out a fairly challenging relationship.
What is Mozart and the Whale?
400
This institute in Princeton, NJ is a leading authority in the field of Autism and provides a well-known ABA based curriculum documented with our red books.
What is the Eden Institute?
400
The criteria at which independent mastery is considered achieved under optimal circumstances.
What is 90%?
400
This psychologist analyzed cognitive and emotional processes, distinguishing between respondent and operant behavior, which formed the foundation for some of the early principles of ABA.
Who is B. F. Skinner?
400
This is the point in an assessment where an individual is determined to have mastered all previous skills; it is generally the "starting point" of an assessment.
What is the "basal?"
400
Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman play brothers, one of whom is an abrasive, self-centered young man who doesn't know is autistic savant brother is alive.
What is Rain Man?
500
This color represent "mastery" when graphing in the red books.
What is the color pink?
500
"The process of systematically applying interventions based upon the principles of learning theory to improve socially significant behaviors to a meaningful degree, and to demonstrate that the interventions employed are responsible for the improvement in behavior."
What is Applied Behavior Analysis?
500
This is the point at which an individual has missed a predetermined number of items; it is generally considered the "stopping point" of an assessment.
What is the "ceiling?"
500
In this 1998 thriller, a 9 year old autistic boy cracks the government's new, supposedly unbreakable code, thus placing his life at risk while Bruce Willis protects him.