Lesson – 1. ASD and common characteristics and deficits

Lesson – 2. Autism as a spectrum disorder and its core deficits as outlined in the DSM-V.

Lesson – 3. ‘Red flags’ used in early diagnosis

Lesson – 4. Risk factors to autism spectrum disorders

Lesson – 5. Terminology associated with diagnosis, such as pragmatic language, receptive and expressive language, sensory-motor, social skills, joint attention, stereotypy

Lesson – 6. How and when disorders are commonly associated in differential diagnosis, such as learning disabilities, processing disorders, etc.

Lesson – 7. Identify co-morbid disorders associated with ASD

Lesson – 1. Scope and role of practice for the ABAT

Lesson – 2. QABA code of ethics, policies, and procedures

Lesson – 3. Limitations of confidentiality- Mandated Reporting

Lesson – 4. Define and understand HIPAA

Lesson – 5. Advocacy and collaborative approach to intervention

Lesson – 6. Identify the following acronyms: IEP, IDEA

Lesson – 1. Behaviorism and behavior modification

Lesson – 2. Classical and operant conditioning, conditioned and unconditioned reinforcement and punishment

Lesson – 3. Three-part contingency; antecedents, behaviors, consequences (ABC data)

Lesson – 4. Foundational behavioral terminology including, extinction, extinction burst, spontaneous recovery, deprivation, satiation, stimulus, discriminative stimulus, stimulus control, responses, motivation operations, establishing operations, setting events

Lesson – 5. Principles and types of schedules of reinforcement and punishment

Lesson – 6. Contingent and non-contingent; primary and secondary reinforcement and punishment

Lesson – 7. Terms and definitions of Applied Verbal Behavior (AVB)

Lesson – 1. Define and identify positive behavior support systems

Lesson – 2. Identify and explain the Premack principle, behavioral momentum, priming, forced choice

Lesson – 3. Identify common environment and visual supports and benefits of each such as, functional communication training, PECS, TEACCH, social stories, video modeling, visual schedules

Lesson – 1. Elements of effective goals and objectives

Lesson – 2. Implementation of task analysis

Lesson – 3. Types of prompts- Identify least to most

Lesson – 4. Prompt dependence and fading

Lesson – 5. Demands and demand fading

Lesson – 6. Identify and define pairing

Lesson – 7. Modeling

Lesson – 8. Imitation

Lesson – 9. Identify the six verbal operants

Lesson – 10. Mimetic behavior

Lesson – 11. Motor behavior

Lesson – 12. Describe the implementation of Errorless learning and Error Correction procedures.

Lesson – 13. Define Stimulus control and transfer

Lesson – 14. The ABAT’s role in Transfer trials

Lesson – 15. Understand the phases of Discrete trial teaching (DTT)

Lesson – 16. Discrimination training

Lesson – 17. Define Shaping and understand its implementation

Lesson – 18. Describe the differences between backward and forward chaining

Lesson – 19. Natural environment teaching (NET) and implementation

Lesson – 20. Understand the purpose of generalization and maintenance

Lesson – 21. Define pivotal behavior

Lesson – 22. Pivotal response training (PRT)

Lesson – 1. Define reliability and validity

Lesson – 2. Describe components of operational definitions

Lesson – 3. Types of assessments: preference, self-monitoring, ABC, environmental evaluation

Lesson – 4. Types of measurement, such as frequency/event recording, duration, time sampling, interval, partial interval, and latency

Lesson – 5. Types of continuous and discontinuous; direct and indirect data recording

Lesson – 6. Identify and interpret basic graphs; line, scatterplot, bar

Lesson – 7. Define and identify the benefits of IOA