ASD

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Across
  1. 3. ________mediation
  2. 6. acronym for Social Communication, Emotional Regulation, and Transactional Support
  3. 8. thought to be a contributing factor to ASD; perhaps a reason why it is much more likely that a child with ASD will have a sibling with ASD
  4. 11. individuals with ASD have difficulty with this play skill
  5. 14. Weak _____ _____; one aspect of this theory states that people with ASD are local information processors
  6. 16. Widely used screener for ASD
Down
  1. 1. acronym for Autism Rating Scale often used by SLPs
  2. 2. Instrument for assessing and diagnosing ASD
  3. 3. ________exchange communication system
  4. 4. DIR/______; family based child directed interpersonal development
  5. 5. social ___________; a skill where communicators respond appropriately to bids for interaction
  6. 7. ______attention; important early indicator of prelinguistic communication
  7. 9. ___________milieu teaching
  8. 10. social _______; a therapeutic technique using visually based situation specific instructional strategy
  9. 12. _________behaviors; One of the core diagnostic areas in DSM-5
  10. 13. acronym for theory that states that individuals have "mental states"
  11. 15. Persistent repetition of words or phrases