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CD 480 - EARLY INTERVENTION -
FINAL EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS| ACE YOUR GRADES.
What are intervention methods and techniques that facilitate
social communication? - correct answer -- Peer Mediated
Instructed and Intervention (typically developing peers interact
and help children with ASD to acquire new behaviors,
communication and social skills by increasing social and learning
opportunities within natural environments.)
- Social Narrative Intervention (narratives that describe social
situations in some detail by highlighting relevant cues and giving
examples of appropriate social responses or behaviors)
- Social Communication Training (group or individual training
designed to teach children appropriate ways to interact with
peers, adults and in social situations. Social skills groups focus on
basic concepts, role-playing and practice, feedback about how to
communicate, social skills to promote positive interactions with
peers.)
- TEACCH (includes various teaching or treatment principles and
strategies based on the learning characteristics of individuals with
ASD.)
- SCERTS (promotes child-initiated communication in everyday
activities. SCERTS is most concerned with helping children with
autism to achieve Authentic Progress, which is defined as the
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ability to learn and spontaneously apply functional and relevant
skills in a variety of settings and with a variety of partners.)
What are the key features of the Coaching model? - correct
answer -Team model in which one member is the primary coach
to the family and receives coaching support from other team
members to strengthen parenting competence and confidence
and promote child learning and development.
What are key features of the Routine-Based Intervention model? -
correct answer -Families are the center point of intervention.
Children learn functional skills through daily routine activities and
interactions.
What are key features of the Everyday Children's Learning
Opportunities model? - correct answer -- Utilizes ideas from social
system and activity learning theory
- Uses everyday family and community opportunities, experiences
and events to help young children with disabilities develop
everyday knowledge and skills.
What are the key features of the DIR/Floortime model? - correct
answer -- 6 Developmental milestones
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- Floortime is a type of free play, in which the child can chose and
direct the play
- Parents or teachers join the child in what interests them
- Parents and teachers also challenge the child to expand and
extend
their play
- is an alternative/combo to ABA
- is an EBP
- can be used through adulthood, but mostly with young children
Describe PECS: - correct answer -- type of AAC
- main purpose is to teach functional communication
- based off ABA and B.F. Skinner's work
- is an EBP
- designed for clients with ASD, but used with others as well
- no age limit
- 6 phases
-
Describe the Hanen It Takes Two to Talk program: - correct
answer -- Designed specifically for parents of young children
(birth to 5 years) with receptive and expressive language delays.
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- Teaches parents how to become their child's most important
language teacher
- is an EBP
- Observe, Wait, Listen (OWL)
Describe pivotal response training (PRT): - correct answer --
designed for children with ASD
- play based
- based on principles of ABA
- Goals include:
- Development of communication and language skills
- Increasing positive social behaviors
- Relief from disruptive self-stimming
- Not a therapy but a teaching technique
- treatment aims to promote independence as well as reduce the
need for
- praise or reward every time the child attempts to achieve a goal
whether they were successful or not
- is an EBP
Describe ABA: - correct answer -- is an EBP
CD 480 - EARLY INTERVENTION -
FINAL EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS| ACE YOUR GRADES.
What are intervention methods and techniques that facilitate
social communication? - correct answer -- Peer Mediated
Instructed and Intervention (typically developing peers interact
and help children with ASD to acquire new behaviors,
communication and social skills by increasing social and learning
opportunities within natural environments.)
- Social Narrative Intervention (narratives that describe social
situations in some detail by highlighting relevant cues and giving
examples of appropriate social responses or behaviors)
- Social Communication Training (group or individual training
designed to teach children appropriate ways to interact with
peers, adults and in social situations. Social skills groups focus on
basic concepts, role-playing and practice, feedback about how to
communicate, social skills to promote positive interactions with
peers.)
- TEACCH (includes various teaching or treatment principles and
strategies based on the learning characteristics of individuals with
ASD.)
- SCERTS (promotes child-initiated communication in everyday
activities. SCERTS is most concerned with helping children with
autism to achieve Authentic Progress, which is defined as the
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ability to learn and spontaneously apply functional and relevant
skills in a variety of settings and with a variety of partners.)
What are the key features of the Coaching model? - correct
answer -Team model in which one member is the primary coach
to the family and receives coaching support from other team
members to strengthen parenting competence and confidence
and promote child learning and development.
What are key features of the Routine-Based Intervention model? -
correct answer -Families are the center point of intervention.
Children learn functional skills through daily routine activities and
interactions.
What are key features of the Everyday Children's Learning
Opportunities model? - correct answer -- Utilizes ideas from social
system and activity learning theory
- Uses everyday family and community opportunities, experiences
and events to help young children with disabilities develop
everyday knowledge and skills.
What are the key features of the DIR/Floortime model? - correct
answer -- 6 Developmental milestones
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- Floortime is a type of free play, in which the child can chose and
direct the play
- Parents or teachers join the child in what interests them
- Parents and teachers also challenge the child to expand and
extend
their play
- is an alternative/combo to ABA
- is an EBP
- can be used through adulthood, but mostly with young children
Describe PECS: - correct answer -- type of AAC
- main purpose is to teach functional communication
- based off ABA and B.F. Skinner's work
- is an EBP
- designed for clients with ASD, but used with others as well
- no age limit
- 6 phases
-
Describe the Hanen It Takes Two to Talk program: - correct
answer -- Designed specifically for parents of young children
(birth to 5 years) with receptive and expressive language delays.
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- Teaches parents how to become their child's most important
language teacher
- is an EBP
- Observe, Wait, Listen (OWL)
Describe pivotal response training (PRT): - correct answer --
designed for children with ASD
- play based
- based on principles of ABA
- Goals include:
- Development of communication and language skills
- Increasing positive social behaviors
- Relief from disruptive self-stimming
- Not a therapy but a teaching technique
- treatment aims to promote independence as well as reduce the
need for
- praise or reward every time the child attempts to achieve a goal
whether they were successful or not
- is an EBP
Describe ABA: - correct answer -- is an EBP
