Most Current Evidence Supports ______ Used in a Structured Education

question 4

Multiple Choice

Most current evidence supports ______ used in a structured education program as the best way to help students with autism learn.

• A) 40 hours per week of direct instruction
• B) part-time MT therapy combined with unstructured play
• C) systematic, ABA-based instructional practices
• D) scaffolding with an intensive life skills focus

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Definitions:

Resistance

In therapy, the act of opposing or struggling against change, often manifested by the patient's reluctance to discuss, remember, or acknowledge certain feelings, thoughts, or experiences.

Pathological Gambling

A disorder characterized by a persistent and recurrent problematic gambling behavior that leads to significant distress or impairment.

Meta-analysis

A statistical technique that combines the results of multiple scientific studies to arrive at a conclusion that has greater statistical power than any of the individual studies.

Effect Sizes

Measures used in statistics to quantify the magnitude of a particular effect or difference found in a scientific study, facilitating comparison across studies.