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2025 Exam: QASP-S Study Guide |2025 Update
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pivotal behavior - (ANSWER)A behavior that, when learned, produces
corresponding modifications or covariation in other untrained behaviors.
Pivotal Response Training (PRT) - (ANSWER)Targets increasing social-
communicative repertoires and the child's responsiveness to the environment.
Focuses not only on language, but also on motivation, self-regulation, responding
to multiple cues, and self-initiation of social interactions
functional communication training - (ANSWER)An antecedent intervention in
which an appropriate communicative behavior is taught as a replacement
behavior for problem behavior usually evoked by an establishing operation (EO).
TEACCH - (ANSWER)A well research program used with individuals with ASD. The
program emphasizes language development and uses a variety of visual cues to
facilitate language development.
Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) - (ANSWER)Special education term used to
describe the written plan used to address problem behavior that includes positive
behavioral interventions, strategies and support. May include program
modifications and supplementary aids and services.
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functions of behavior - (ANSWER)What the client is accessing or escaping by
engaging in the problem behavior
Access, attention, escape, automatic
time-out - (ANSWER)A disciplinary technique in which a child is separated from
other people for a specified time.
Should only be used if the function of the problem behavior is attention (peer,
adult).
Challenging behaviors - (ANSWER)Destructive and/or disruptive such as: hitting,
screaming, biting, and swearing.
positive programming - (ANSWER)longitudinal, instructional program designed to
give the learner greater skills and competencies for the purpose of controlling or
eliminating problem behavior in order to facilitate and enhance social integration.
In this sense it is based on a functional analysis of the preventing problem and
involves the systematic manipulation of stimulus conditions, consequences,
instructional stimuli and other variables in an effort to establish the new, more
adaptive behavioral repertoire.
positive behavior support plan - (ANSWER)Typical plans involve an objective for
the intervention, prevention strategies, replacement behaviors, reinforcers,
attention to what should not be reinforced, and ways to monitor children's
progress
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delivering consequences - (ANSWER)immediacy
operational definition - (ANSWER)a statement of the procedures used to define
research variables. The procedures included in definitions should be repeatable
by anyone or at least by peers.
onset and offset behavior - (ANSWER)Behavior must have a defined beginning
and end added to the definition. Doing so increases the strength of your
intervention by increasing the likelihood of accurate measurement
frequency/rate - (ANSWER)Ratio of count per observation time
baseline data - (ANSWER)information gathered by scientists to be used as a
starting point to compare changes after the implementation of the independent
variable
topography - (ANSWER)what a behavior looks like
generallization - (ANSWER)intervention can only be deemed a success if change
can be shown in different environments and with multiple people
evidence based - (ANSWER)description of medical techniques or practices that
are supported by scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy, rather than
merely on supposition and tradition.
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advocacy - (ANSWER)Quality advocacy services are person-centered and
developed using a co-production approach that aims to maximize the
participation of people who use services and their carers
person centered planning - (ANSWER)a method of planning for people with
disabilities that places the person and his family at the center of the planning
process
seeks to build a support network, increase independence and connect to the
community
Circle of support - (ANSWER)meeting of extended family, friends, service
providers, etc. to ensure well-being of a child about to age out of cps care
essential lifestyle plans - (ANSWER)ELP is a guided process for learning how
someone wants to live and for developing a plan to help make it happen. It's also:
A snapshot of how someone wants to live today, serving as a blueprint for how to
support someone tomorrow;
A way of organizing and communicating what is important to an individual;
A flexible process that can be used in combination with other person centered
techniques;
A way of making sure that the person is heard, regardless of the severity of
disability.
2025 Exam: QASP-S Study Guide |2025 Update
Comprehensive Frequently Tested Questions And
Verified Answers With Rationales|100% Accurate
Answers | Already Graded A+
pivotal behavior - (ANSWER)A behavior that, when learned, produces
corresponding modifications or covariation in other untrained behaviors.
Pivotal Response Training (PRT) - (ANSWER)Targets increasing social-
communicative repertoires and the child's responsiveness to the environment.
Focuses not only on language, but also on motivation, self-regulation, responding
to multiple cues, and self-initiation of social interactions
functional communication training - (ANSWER)An antecedent intervention in
which an appropriate communicative behavior is taught as a replacement
behavior for problem behavior usually evoked by an establishing operation (EO).
TEACCH - (ANSWER)A well research program used with individuals with ASD. The
program emphasizes language development and uses a variety of visual cues to
facilitate language development.
Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) - (ANSWER)Special education term used to
describe the written plan used to address problem behavior that includes positive
behavioral interventions, strategies and support. May include program
modifications and supplementary aids and services.
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functions of behavior - (ANSWER)What the client is accessing or escaping by
engaging in the problem behavior
Access, attention, escape, automatic
time-out - (ANSWER)A disciplinary technique in which a child is separated from
other people for a specified time.
Should only be used if the function of the problem behavior is attention (peer,
adult).
Challenging behaviors - (ANSWER)Destructive and/or disruptive such as: hitting,
screaming, biting, and swearing.
positive programming - (ANSWER)longitudinal, instructional program designed to
give the learner greater skills and competencies for the purpose of controlling or
eliminating problem behavior in order to facilitate and enhance social integration.
In this sense it is based on a functional analysis of the preventing problem and
involves the systematic manipulation of stimulus conditions, consequences,
instructional stimuli and other variables in an effort to establish the new, more
adaptive behavioral repertoire.
positive behavior support plan - (ANSWER)Typical plans involve an objective for
the intervention, prevention strategies, replacement behaviors, reinforcers,
attention to what should not be reinforced, and ways to monitor children's
progress
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delivering consequences - (ANSWER)immediacy
operational definition - (ANSWER)a statement of the procedures used to define
research variables. The procedures included in definitions should be repeatable
by anyone or at least by peers.
onset and offset behavior - (ANSWER)Behavior must have a defined beginning
and end added to the definition. Doing so increases the strength of your
intervention by increasing the likelihood of accurate measurement
frequency/rate - (ANSWER)Ratio of count per observation time
baseline data - (ANSWER)information gathered by scientists to be used as a
starting point to compare changes after the implementation of the independent
variable
topography - (ANSWER)what a behavior looks like
generallization - (ANSWER)intervention can only be deemed a success if change
can be shown in different environments and with multiple people
evidence based - (ANSWER)description of medical techniques or practices that
are supported by scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy, rather than
merely on supposition and tradition.
, 4|Page
advocacy - (ANSWER)Quality advocacy services are person-centered and
developed using a co-production approach that aims to maximize the
participation of people who use services and their carers
person centered planning - (ANSWER)a method of planning for people with
disabilities that places the person and his family at the center of the planning
process
seeks to build a support network, increase independence and connect to the
community
Circle of support - (ANSWER)meeting of extended family, friends, service
providers, etc. to ensure well-being of a child about to age out of cps care
essential lifestyle plans - (ANSWER)ELP is a guided process for learning how
someone wants to live and for developing a plan to help make it happen. It's also:
A snapshot of how someone wants to live today, serving as a blueprint for how to
support someone tomorrow;
A way of organizing and communicating what is important to an individual;
A flexible process that can be used in combination with other person centered
techniques;
A way of making sure that the person is heard, regardless of the severity of
disability.
