QASP S ACTUAL TEST BANK FULL
SOLUTION WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● QASP will demonstrate
Answer: trustworthiness, honesty, fairness and sincerity
●● Non-discrimination policy
Answer: The QABA Credentialing Board will not discriminate against
applicants, candidates or certificants on the basis of race, color, gender
(including gender identity and gender expression), religion, age, marital
status, registered domestic partner status, disability, socioeconomic or
ethnic background, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran
status or national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law.
●● Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Answer: A disorder characterized by deficits in social relatedness and
communication skills that are often accompanied by repetitive, ritualistic
behavior.
●● ASD characteristics
Answer: Communication- Delay or lack of development of language,
diffiulty holding conversations, unusual or repetitive language, play that
is not appropriate for developmental level.
,Social interaction- Difficutly using nonverbal behaviors to regulate
social interaction, failure to develop age appropriate peer relationships,
little sharing of pleasure, achievements or interests with others, lack of
social or emotional reciprocity.
Restrictied/Repetitive activities- Interests are narrow in focus, overly
intense and/or unusual, unreasonalbe insistence on sameness and
folowing familiar routines, repetitive motor mannerisms, preoccupation
with parts of objects.
●● ASD deficits
Answer: Social interaction, communication, repetitive/restricitive
beahviors
●● Triad of Impairments
Answer: Deficits in reciprocal social interaction
Deficits in communication
Restricted, repetitive behaviors, interests or activities.
●● joint attention
Answer: Joint Attention and Social Referencing. Joint attention occurs
when two people share interest in an object or event and there is
understanding between the two people that they are both interested in the
same object or event.
, ●● Hyper/hyposensitive sensory input
Answer: Sometimes the senses of autistic children are in 'hypo', so that
they do not really see, hear or feel anything. To stimulate their senses
they might wave their hands around or rock forth and back or make
strange noises.
Hypersensitive is the exact opposite, some may get too much sensory
input from any of the senses.
●● Historical definitions of autism
Answer: 1908- word autism is used to describe schizophrenic patients
who were also withdrawn and self-absorbed.
Kanner (1943) described children who were highly intelligent but
"displayed a powerful desire for aloneness" and rigidity/insistence on
sameness
Hans Asperger (1944) difficulty with social interaction
1967- refrigerator mothers were the cause of autism
1980-infantile autism listed in the DSM
1987-autism disorder in DSM
1991-federal government makes autism a sped category
1994-Asperger's syndrome added to DSM
2013- DSM-5 folds all subcategories of autism ASD with two categories
1) impaired social communication and/or interaction. 2) restricted and/or
repetitive beahviors
SOLUTION WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● QASP will demonstrate
Answer: trustworthiness, honesty, fairness and sincerity
●● Non-discrimination policy
Answer: The QABA Credentialing Board will not discriminate against
applicants, candidates or certificants on the basis of race, color, gender
(including gender identity and gender expression), religion, age, marital
status, registered domestic partner status, disability, socioeconomic or
ethnic background, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran
status or national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law.
●● Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Answer: A disorder characterized by deficits in social relatedness and
communication skills that are often accompanied by repetitive, ritualistic
behavior.
●● ASD characteristics
Answer: Communication- Delay or lack of development of language,
diffiulty holding conversations, unusual or repetitive language, play that
is not appropriate for developmental level.
,Social interaction- Difficutly using nonverbal behaviors to regulate
social interaction, failure to develop age appropriate peer relationships,
little sharing of pleasure, achievements or interests with others, lack of
social or emotional reciprocity.
Restrictied/Repetitive activities- Interests are narrow in focus, overly
intense and/or unusual, unreasonalbe insistence on sameness and
folowing familiar routines, repetitive motor mannerisms, preoccupation
with parts of objects.
●● ASD deficits
Answer: Social interaction, communication, repetitive/restricitive
beahviors
●● Triad of Impairments
Answer: Deficits in reciprocal social interaction
Deficits in communication
Restricted, repetitive behaviors, interests or activities.
●● joint attention
Answer: Joint Attention and Social Referencing. Joint attention occurs
when two people share interest in an object or event and there is
understanding between the two people that they are both interested in the
same object or event.
, ●● Hyper/hyposensitive sensory input
Answer: Sometimes the senses of autistic children are in 'hypo', so that
they do not really see, hear or feel anything. To stimulate their senses
they might wave their hands around or rock forth and back or make
strange noises.
Hypersensitive is the exact opposite, some may get too much sensory
input from any of the senses.
●● Historical definitions of autism
Answer: 1908- word autism is used to describe schizophrenic patients
who were also withdrawn and self-absorbed.
Kanner (1943) described children who were highly intelligent but
"displayed a powerful desire for aloneness" and rigidity/insistence on
sameness
Hans Asperger (1944) difficulty with social interaction
1967- refrigerator mothers were the cause of autism
1980-infantile autism listed in the DSM
1987-autism disorder in DSM
1991-federal government makes autism a sped category
1994-Asperger's syndrome added to DSM
2013- DSM-5 folds all subcategories of autism ASD with two categories
1) impaired social communication and/or interaction. 2) restricted and/or
repetitive beahviors
