ABAT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | ABAT CERTIFICATION EXAM STUDY GUIDE &
PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
PBS (Positive Behavior Support) - ANS ✔✔changing situations and events that people with problem
behaviors experience to reduce them
TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication in handicapped Children) -
ANS ✔✔structured teaching
PECS - ANS ✔✔Picture Exchange Communication System (using pictures to communicate)
IDEA - ANS ✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
FBAs - ANS ✔✔Functional Behavior Assessment
Define Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and common characteristics and deficits. - ANS ✔✔deficits in
social communications and interactions / restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, activities, or
interests
Identify what is meant by the triad of impairments. - ANS ✔✔1. impairment in social interaction e.g.
multiple nonverbal behaviors such as eye-to-eye gaze and facial expression 2. impairments in
communication e.g a delay in, or total lack of, the development of spoken language 3. restricted
repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities e.g. encompassing
preoccupation with one or more stereotyped and restricted patterns of interest that is abnormal either
in intensity or focus
Identify the 'red flags' to early diagnosis. - ANS ✔✔They Don't Respond to Their Name, They Don't
Imitate Behavior, They Display Less Emotion, They Don't Engage in Joint Attention, They Pretend Less.
Identify risk factors to ASD. - ANS ✔✔Boys more likely, preterm babies, parent ages
Identify current (2018) CDC statistics and rates for the prevalence of ASD. - ANS ✔✔1/59 children have
autism, 4x more likely in boys
Identify serial vs. parallel processing related to learning style of individuals with ASD. - ANS ✔✔SERIAL:
attending to and processing one item at a time PARALLEL: all items simultaneously
Identify common co-morbid diagnoses. - ANS ✔✔fragile X syndrome, epilepsy
Define Least Restrictive Environment (LRE). - ANS ✔✔they should spend as much time as possible with
peers who do not receive special education
Identify all components of Applied Verbal Behavior (AVB). - ANS ✔✔encourages people with autism to
learn language by connecting words with their purposes
PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
PBS (Positive Behavior Support) - ANS ✔✔changing situations and events that people with problem
behaviors experience to reduce them
TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication in handicapped Children) -
ANS ✔✔structured teaching
PECS - ANS ✔✔Picture Exchange Communication System (using pictures to communicate)
IDEA - ANS ✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
FBAs - ANS ✔✔Functional Behavior Assessment
Define Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and common characteristics and deficits. - ANS ✔✔deficits in
social communications and interactions / restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, activities, or
interests
Identify what is meant by the triad of impairments. - ANS ✔✔1. impairment in social interaction e.g.
multiple nonverbal behaviors such as eye-to-eye gaze and facial expression 2. impairments in
communication e.g a delay in, or total lack of, the development of spoken language 3. restricted
repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities e.g. encompassing
preoccupation with one or more stereotyped and restricted patterns of interest that is abnormal either
in intensity or focus
Identify the 'red flags' to early diagnosis. - ANS ✔✔They Don't Respond to Their Name, They Don't
Imitate Behavior, They Display Less Emotion, They Don't Engage in Joint Attention, They Pretend Less.
Identify risk factors to ASD. - ANS ✔✔Boys more likely, preterm babies, parent ages
Identify current (2018) CDC statistics and rates for the prevalence of ASD. - ANS ✔✔1/59 children have
autism, 4x more likely in boys
Identify serial vs. parallel processing related to learning style of individuals with ASD. - ANS ✔✔SERIAL:
attending to and processing one item at a time PARALLEL: all items simultaneously
Identify common co-morbid diagnoses. - ANS ✔✔fragile X syndrome, epilepsy
Define Least Restrictive Environment (LRE). - ANS ✔✔they should spend as much time as possible with
peers who do not receive special education
Identify all components of Applied Verbal Behavior (AVB). - ANS ✔✔encourages people with autism to
learn language by connecting words with their purposes
