Which model or approach would be most useful to you if you were working with a school-aged autistic child on emotional regulation during transitions across both home and school settings and multiple providers?

Give an example of a controlled variation in a play routine. Why would we introduce controlled variations in routines for a client on the autism spectrum? (6 points)

A practitioner is most likely to be targeting gross motor and cognitive skills in which of the following intervention approaches?

A therapist has a 2-year-old autistic client and is implementing an NDBI. She is playing with the child on the floor with blocks, which is one of the child’s favorite toys. The therapist imitates the child’s play, models new play, models vocabulary verbally and using a speech generating device (i.e., aided language modeling), and uses least-to-most prompting to encourage the child to use the SGD to request blocks. Which strategy likely differentiates this NDBI from a developmental approach?

 Define and give one example of a pivotal skill. (3 points)

If a person no longer demonstrates any restricted, repetitive behaviors, interests, or activities, but they report that they used to when they were a child, this person may still receive an autism diagnosis according to the DSM-5.

A 5-year-old child says, “Look at the kitty, Daddy!” and then both the child and father look at their neighbor’s cat and then back at each other. This is an example of:

Can response to joint attention occur before a child can speak?

Caregiver coaching as part of an approach to autism intervention generally is:

When asked “Do you want some apple slices?” the child responds “apple slices”. This could be an example of: