ABAT CORE MAIN EXAMS ALL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Structured TEACCHing (TEACCH) - ✔✔Treatment principles and strategies based
on the learning characteristics of individuals with ASD, including strength in visual
information processing, difficulties with social communication, attention, and executive
function.
creating a highly visually based structured environment that promotes an understanding
of schedules, activities and expectations. This allows students with ASD to: understand
and act appropiatley within their environment.
✔✔Social Stories - ✔✔Used to describes a situation, skill, or concept in terms of
relevant social cues, perspectives, and common responses in a specifically defined
style and format.
✔✔Video Modeling - ✔✔showing videos of the skills they are learning
✔✔Visual Schedules - ✔✔A set of pictures that communicates a series of activities or
the steps of a specific activity.
✔✔Elements of effective goals and objectives - ✔✔G: are created to help work up to the
objective.
, O: This is a long term goal. They are built of a series of small goals to create the
objective of the program.
Specific - What exactly do you want to accomplish?; Measurable - Can you
assess/measure your progress?; Achievable - is your goal within your reach?; Relevant
- is it relevant toward your life's purpose?; Timely
✔✔Task analysis - ✔✔A task analysis is used to break complex tasks into a sequence
of smaller steps or actions
✔✔Types of Prompts - ✔✔Physical Prompt - Full, Partial, Minimal
Model Prompt
Gestural Prompts
Positional Prompts
Verbal Prompt - Direct, Indirect
Symbolic Prompt
Delayed Prompts
✔✔Prompt dependence and fading - ✔✔D: occurs when a child gets used to prompts
(child may wait for the prompt before answering or performing task)
F: gradually reducing the strength of the prompt ('block' → 'b')
✔✔Demands and demand fading - ✔✔To decrease an individual's challenging behavior
maintained by escape from demands, demands are initially removed, then, as the
challenging behavior remains low, demands are gradually reintroduced
✔✔Pairing - ✔✔Pairing yourself or (associating) yourself with reinforcers is highly
important.
Pairing turns you into the reinforcer, and provides increased compliance and
instructional control.
✔✔Modeling - ✔✔involves demonstrating the desired behavior in ABA therapy. The
therapist may provide an in-person, a video, or an audio example of what the individual
is expected to do
✔✔Imitation - ✔✔Imitative learning allows children to observe, then practice and
rehearse the behaviors they've seen. This leads to the mastery of countless new skills.
✔✔Verbal Operants - ✔✔MAND: a phrase the consumer must respond with ("what do
you want?")
TACT: the consumer must verbally name the item presented to them through pictures or
objects (stimuli) ("what is this?")
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Structured TEACCHing (TEACCH) - ✔✔Treatment principles and strategies based
on the learning characteristics of individuals with ASD, including strength in visual
information processing, difficulties with social communication, attention, and executive
function.
creating a highly visually based structured environment that promotes an understanding
of schedules, activities and expectations. This allows students with ASD to: understand
and act appropiatley within their environment.
✔✔Social Stories - ✔✔Used to describes a situation, skill, or concept in terms of
relevant social cues, perspectives, and common responses in a specifically defined
style and format.
✔✔Video Modeling - ✔✔showing videos of the skills they are learning
✔✔Visual Schedules - ✔✔A set of pictures that communicates a series of activities or
the steps of a specific activity.
✔✔Elements of effective goals and objectives - ✔✔G: are created to help work up to the
objective.
, O: This is a long term goal. They are built of a series of small goals to create the
objective of the program.
Specific - What exactly do you want to accomplish?; Measurable - Can you
assess/measure your progress?; Achievable - is your goal within your reach?; Relevant
- is it relevant toward your life's purpose?; Timely
✔✔Task analysis - ✔✔A task analysis is used to break complex tasks into a sequence
of smaller steps or actions
✔✔Types of Prompts - ✔✔Physical Prompt - Full, Partial, Minimal
Model Prompt
Gestural Prompts
Positional Prompts
Verbal Prompt - Direct, Indirect
Symbolic Prompt
Delayed Prompts
✔✔Prompt dependence and fading - ✔✔D: occurs when a child gets used to prompts
(child may wait for the prompt before answering or performing task)
F: gradually reducing the strength of the prompt ('block' → 'b')
✔✔Demands and demand fading - ✔✔To decrease an individual's challenging behavior
maintained by escape from demands, demands are initially removed, then, as the
challenging behavior remains low, demands are gradually reintroduced
✔✔Pairing - ✔✔Pairing yourself or (associating) yourself with reinforcers is highly
important.
Pairing turns you into the reinforcer, and provides increased compliance and
instructional control.
✔✔Modeling - ✔✔involves demonstrating the desired behavior in ABA therapy. The
therapist may provide an in-person, a video, or an audio example of what the individual
is expected to do
✔✔Imitation - ✔✔Imitative learning allows children to observe, then practice and
rehearse the behaviors they've seen. This leads to the mastery of countless new skills.
✔✔Verbal Operants - ✔✔MAND: a phrase the consumer must respond with ("what do
you want?")
TACT: the consumer must verbally name the item presented to them through pictures or
objects (stimuli) ("what is this?")
