The Southern
California DIR®/Floortime™* Regional Institute
ICDL SoCal Institute Test Questions Engaging Autism: October Questions 1. What are three core developmental foundational capacities that the DIR/Floortime model can favorably influence? relating, thinking and communicating. 2. Emotions lead language and cognition development all the way true or false? (T) 3. Critical features that help the mind and brain grow include all of the following except: (page 37) warmth and security, regulation, relatedness and engagement, back and forth emotional signaling and gesturing, problem solving, use of ideas in a meaningful and functional way, thinking and reasoning and language production . 4. Children with Autism have a biologically based difficulty connecting their emotions to their emerging ability to plan and sequence their actions T Or F 5. A compromise in the sensory – affect - motor pattern connection is a primary biological deficit in ASD T or F true DMIC Define Emotional Functioning: Emotional functioning includes capacities for self-regulation, different levels of relating to others, emotional cueing and signaling evidence of preverbal affective reciprocity and communication, co-regulated social problem solving, symbolizing or representing wishes and emotions, elaborating emotional themes in pretend play, reasoning about feelings, reflecting on one’s own feelings and empathizing with the feelings of others, and reality testing. T or F (true) Page 196: Name six early organizational emotional functional levels: Shared attention and regulation, engagement and relating, two way purposeful emotional interactions, shared social problem solving, creating symbols and ideas, building logical bridges between ideas: logical thinking. Page 200: The post-symbolic non-verbal, gestural communication system contributes to who we are and what we perceive: T or F (F, it’s pre-symbolic).
Page 203 Infant assessments include which of the following: a. caregiver interactions b. coaching c. playing with infant d. parent questionnaire e. all of the above (E)