ASD Study Guide 2026
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📋 ASD Exam Format at a Glance
📚 ASD Topics to Study (22)
✍️ Sample ASD Questions & Answers
1. Parent-to-parent (P2P) support programs for ASD families provide which UNIQUE benefit that professional services cannot?
Parents who have raised autistic children offer empathy, insider knowledge, and non-judgmental support that professionals with only clinical experience cannot fully replicate.
2. The Hanen Centre program 'More Than Words' is specifically designed for:
'More Than Words' trains parents to use communication facilitation strategies during everyday routines to advance their child's social communication skills.
3. Mand training in Verbal Behavior (VB) therapy targets which function of language?
A mand is B.F. Skinner's term for a verbal operant under motivational control, used to request specific reinforcers.
4. The "Olmstead Decision" (1999) is significant for adults with ASD because it ruled that:
The Olmstead Decision affirmed that unjustified institutionalization violates the ADA, requiring states to provide community-based services in the most integrated setting appropriate.
5. Which communication characteristic is commonly observed in some individuals with ASD and involves repeating words or phrases heard previously?
Echolalia—immediate or delayed repetition of others' speech—is a common communication feature in ASD and can serve communicative functions.
6. "Natural supports" in the workplace for adults with ASD refer to:
Natural supports are informal assistance provided by coworkers, supervisors, or others already present in the environment who are not paid disability support providers.