ABAT Exam QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

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ASD and common characteristics and deficits - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔impaired communication, impaired reciprocal social
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interaction and restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of
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behaviors or interests. |\ |\




Autism as a spectrum disorder with a triad of primary
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impairments - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Social and Emotional |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


Interaction: Standing too close to people, unaware of different
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ways of interacting with others, has desire to have friends and
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relationships but struggles to initiate them |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Imagination and Flexibility of Thought: does not understand |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


understand others points of view or feelings, takes everything
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literally, and agitated by change in routine
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Social Communication and Language: asks repetitive questions,
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cannot 'read between the lives' of what people mean,
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communicates for one needs rather than for 'social' engagement, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


and makes factual comments inappropriate to the context
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'Red flags' used in early diagnosis - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Any
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loss of speech, babbling, gestures or social skills should be taken
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very seriously, as regression is a major red flag for autism.
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Overview of diagnosis; how and when - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Doctors look at the child's developmental history and |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\

,behavior to make a diagnosis. ASD can sometimes be detected at
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18 months or younger. By age 2, a diagnosis by an experienced
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professional can be considered very reliable. However, many |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


children do not receive a final diagnosis until much older.
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Identify risk factors to ASD - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Your child's
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sex. Boys are about four times more likely to develop autism
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spectrum disorder than girls are. |\ |\ |\ |\




Family history. Families who have one child with autism spectrum
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disorder have an increased risk of having another child with the
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disorder. ... |\




Other disorders. ...|\ |\




Extremely preterm babies. ... |\ |\ |\




Parents' ages |\




Pragmatic Language - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the use of |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


appropriate communication in social situations (knowing what to|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


say, how to say it, and when to say it)
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Receptive Language - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the understanding
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of information provided in a variety of ways such as sounds and
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words; movement and gestures; and signs and symbols.
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Expressive Language - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔our ability to |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


communicate our thoughts and feelings through words, gestures, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


signs, and/or symbols
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, Sensory-Motor - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the process whereby a |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


child gains use and coordination of his/her muscles of the trunk,
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arms, legs and hands (motor development), and begins to
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experience (through sensory input) the environment through |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


sight, sounds, smell, taste and hearing
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Social Skills - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the skills we use everyday
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to interact and communicate with others. They include verbal
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and non-verbal communication, such as speech, gesture, facial
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expression and body language. |\ |\ |\




Joint Attention - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔When the child points to
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something, not because they want it, but to show it to someone|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


for a social purpose.
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Stereotypy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔suppressible, repetitive, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


rhythmical, coordinated, purposeless, fixed, and nonfunctional|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


pattern of movements. |\ |\




Disorders commonly associated in differential diagnosis, such as
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learning disabilities, processing disorders, etc. - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Learning Disabilities: Learning disabilities are
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disorders that affect the ability to understand or use spoken or
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written language, do mathematical calculations, coordinate
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movements, or direct attention. |\ |\ |\




Processing Disorders: are conditions in which the brain has
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difficulty receiving and responding to information that comes
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through the senses. |\ |\