Behaviour, Social Communication and Sleep

Question 1

What is the ABC approach to behaviour?

Answer 1

Antecedent- what happened before behaviour?
Behaviour- what it looked like?
Consequence- what did parent do about it?

Question 2

Red flags for food issues in children…

Answer 2

only eats particular foods- e.g. colour

doesn’t want food touching

Question 3

What changes occur when we sleep?

Answer 3

brain wave activity
breathing
heart rate
body temp
muscle control

Question 4

Why do we sleep?

Answer 4

restore metabolic function

store new memories in LTM

Question 5

Sleep problems are not very common in young children- true/false?

Answer 5

false

Question 6

Much higher rate of sleep problems in children with ASD/ADHD/LD/CP- true/false?

Answer 6

true

Question 7

Parasomnia is…

Answer 7

type of sleep disorder- night terrors/sleep walking

Question 8

You need the most sleep when you are a newborn- true/false?

Answer 8

true- 18 hours!

Question 9

Why is blue screen light a problem when it comes to sleeping?

Answer 9

brain thinks its time to sleep but blue light causes hormonal gland to not produce melatonin and therefore body struggles to sleep because brain thinks its daytime

Question 10

No two children with ASD are the same- true/false?

Answer 10

true

Question 11

What is protoimperative pointing?

Answer 11

request based pointing