Knowledge Test – Early Years Caregiver Mediated Program offered by Early Connections Autism Services (AlphaBee and SAAAC) – January – April 2025

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1. What are the main goals of JASPER?

a. To prepare children to sit at a table at school, and follow simple instructions

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b. To increase engagement with a play partner and toys, and to increase initiations of play acts (child goes first) and initiations of interactions

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c. To increase self-help skills such as feeding self, dressing self, and using the toilet

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2. How is JASPER different from the other Naturalistic Developmental Behavioural Interventions (NDBIs)?

a. JASPER assesses the child’s play level, prioritizes toy routines, and ensures the routines have multiple turn-taking opportunities

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b. JASPER uses sensory toys like Slinkys and Play Doh, and avoids pretend food toys.

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c. JASPER suggests that you talk during your child’s turn so that they can’t hear their own mistakes, and to also demonstrate a correct comment about their toys

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3. What are the 4 main levels of Play in JASPER?

a. Discovery Play, Cause and Effect Play, Partner Play, Imaginary Play

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b. Simple Play, Combination Play, Pre-Symbolic Play, Symbolic Play

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c. Solitary Play, Sensory Play, Assembly Play, Pretend Play

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4. When we talk about the environment, what are we thinking about? Choose 2 things that we do to manage the learning environment.

a. Never play in the child’s bedroom and always have a fan running

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b. Wash your child’s hands and play after a meal

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c. Be face-to-face and have toys at your child’s play level ready

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5. What might the child do that the adult should imitate?

a. The child builds the same tower many times and throws the crashed blocks

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b. The child mouths objects and visually inspects objects

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c. The child does some new play acts and makes communication attempts

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6. When would the adult want to model something new for the child?

a. When the child is playing repetitively, exactly the same way each time, or when the child starts to look bored

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b. When the child has a great idea for the next step of the routine and wants you to follow them

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c. When the child picks up a toy piece and is about to take an action

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7. What 3 things are needed to make a JASPER play routine?

a. Battery operated toys, toys with sound effects, and miniature toys

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b. Repeated practice of a predictable base routine with variable elements

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c. Pictures of the expected actions, guiding music, and at least 12 turns

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8. What 2 strategies can increase your child’s communication?

a. Provide language models by commenting on your turn and by making comments at your child’s language level

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b. Set up toys for independent play and increase the time your child plays alone to at least 20 minutes

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c. Ask your child a lot of questions when they play, and correct any words that they say

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9. Which are examples of bids for joint attention?

a. Your child squeezes the Play Doh 3 times and opens a toy gate

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b. Your child asks you to turn on the TV and then asks you for a specific show

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c. Your child holds up a flower to show you, and then gives you a flower so that you can join in and play with them

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10. How can you increase your child’s requests?

a. Take your child to the playground and let them run and play

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b. Keep favourite toys or treats in a clear locked container, or up high

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c. Help your child right away and give them their favourite items immediately

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11. What level play act is putting toy cupcakes in a cupcake tray?

a. Presentation Combination

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b. Physical Combination

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c. Doll as Agent

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12. What level play act is pretending to brush your teeth with a toy toothbrush?

a. Conventional Combination

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b. Pretend Self

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c. Discriminate

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13. What level play act is putting a doll down a slide?

a. Indiscriminate

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b. Child as Agent

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c. Multi-Scheme Sequence

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14. What level play act is pulling blocks apart?

a. General Combination

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b. Substitution without Object

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c. Take Apart

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15. What level play act is pretending to be a police officer and telling someone to “Stop!”?

a. Sociodramatic

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b. Discriminate

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c. Doll as Agent

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16. What level play act is building a house from magnetic tiles?

a. Presentation Combination

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b. Single-Scheme Sequence

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c. Physical Combination

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17. What level play act is stacking boxes into a tower?

a. Substitution with Object

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b. General Combination

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c. Thematic

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18. What level play act is having a doll’s hand hold a toy knife and cut cake?

a. Doll as Agent

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b. Pretend Self

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c. Sociodramatic

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19. What play level is having a doll open a car door, go into a car, turn the steering wheel, drive to the beach, hold a shovel, and build a sand castle?

a. Conventional Combination

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b. Child as Agent

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c. Multi-Scheme Sequence

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20. What play level is putting crayons in a cake instead of candles?

a. Substitution with Object

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b. Take Apart

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c. Substitution without Object

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Knowledge Test – Early Years Caregiver Mediated Program offered by Early Connections Autism Services (AlphaBee and SAAAC) – January – April 2025

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