BCAT Test

BCAT Test ASD: A1-A3: Social communication - must have deficits in ALL 3 sections -A1: SOCIAL EMOTIONAL RECIPROCITY deficits in social emotional reciprocity, reduced sharing interest, dont respond to smiles no give and take sympt: abnorm socail approach, failure to have typical convo, reduc share of emotions, lack of social interac initiation, poor social immitation -A2: NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION deficits in nonverbal commun behav used in social interac, poorly in verbal to non verbal commun may talk, but not have same facail expressions and body lang to show their emot eye contact form of nonverbal,,most pronounced deficit -A3: DEVELOPING, MAINTATING, AND UNDERSTANDING RELATIONSHIPS narrow range of interests, makes diff to relate to others difficult to do dress up with joint atten use ppl as tools to get their needs met inapprop interest w/ kids lack of THEORY OF MIND (going in others shoes,perspective taking) ASD: B1-B4: Stereotypes patterns of bx, interset, and activities - -at least 2 of 4 syptoms -B1: STEREOTYPES/REPETITIVE MOVEMENTS, USE OF OBJECTS OR SPEECH repetitive speech motor movements: handflapping, touching items as walk past, ECHOLALIA (repeat your words/what they are hearing) B2: INSITENCE OF SAMENESS, INFLEXIBLE ADHERENCE TO ROUTINES, OR RITUALIZED PATTERNS OF VERBAL/NONVERBAL BX Rigiditiy, rigid thinking, "overly rule bound", excessive resistance to change, ritualized patterns of nonverbal and verbal behav, compulsions B3: HIGHLY RESTRICTED, FIXATED INTERSTS many unusual perservative interests being overly perfectionistic, excessive focus on non-relavent or nonfunc parts of objects, attachement to unusual inanimat obj, unusual fears B4: HYPER/HYPOSENSORY INPUT atypical sensory behav hyposensitive:under sensitivity (low pain tol) hypersensitivity: being too sensitive about certain things (ex: high pain toler)