QASP EXAM 2026 COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
GUIDE FULL SOLUTIONS A+
◉ 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describe schizophrenic patients who were also withdrawn and self-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
◉ Co-Morbid conditions associated with autism. Answer: Mental
retardation, learning difficulties, ADD/ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, CD,
Nonverbal learnning disabilities
◉ Asperger's Syndrome Definition. Answer: Developmentally
appropriate language, but differences (pragmatics, sentence structure,
pronunciation, vocabulary)
Social deficits, Literal interperatation of langauge
GUIDE FULL SOLUTIONS A+
◉ 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
◉ Co-Morbid conditions associated with autism. Answer: Mental
retardation, learning difficulties, ADD/ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, CD,
Nonverbal learnning disabilities
◉ Asperger's Syndrome Definition. Answer: Developmentally
appropriate language, but differences (pragmatics, sentence structure,
pronunciation, vocabulary)
Social deficits, Literal interperatation of langauge
