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The VB-MAPP assessment is designed to help educators determine a student's current skills level, identify areas for growth, and provide a curriculum to teach the student. It assesses 170 milestones across 3 developmental levels from ages 0-48 months. The assessment evaluates students' verbal behaviors, independent and social play skills, academic abilities, and language barriers. It also includes a transition assessment to help determine if a student can learn in a less restrictive environment. Finally, the VB-MAPP provides a task analysis curriculum guide to map out the steps between each milestone.

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VB MAPP Overview - Handout

The VB-MAPP assessment is designed to help educators determine a student's current skills level, identify areas for growth, and provide a curriculum to teach the student. It assesses 170 milestones across 3 developmental levels from ages 0-48 months. The assessment evaluates students' verbal behaviors, independent and social play skills, academic abilities, and language barriers. It also includes a transition assessment to help determine if a student can learn in a less restrictive environment. Finally, the VB-MAPP provides a task analysis curriculum guide to map out the steps between each milestone.

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VB-MAPP Training Handout

An Overview of the Assessment

Purpose
This handout is designed to help us to establish a framework for understanding the VB-MAPP assessment
as well as to provide an overview of the assessment so that we can gain a better understanding of its value
as an educational tool.

What are our goals as educators?


- Determine where the student is

- Determine where the student needs to go

- Teach the student

- Check to see if you made it

What can result from the failure to conduct an appropriate assessment?

An inappropriate curriculum

What is the VB-MAPP?


- A skills assessment for students based on Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior (1957)

- The assessment looks at students' development of typical language and learning milestones (through
age 4) across verbal components

- The assessment also analyzes students' common language and learning barriers

- It evaluates the student's ability to learn in a less restrictive educational environment through a
transition assessment

- Finally, it provides a developmentally appropriate curriculum sequence for the student once the
assessment has been done

If you like this, then please see my other VB-MAPP training materials at www.stevencelmer.com

VB-MAPP Training Program


An Overview of the Assessment 1 Presentation Handout
Language and Learning Milestones
- There are 170 milestones across 3 different learning levels

- 0 – 18 months (Level 1)

- 18 – 30 months (Level 2)

- 30 – 48 months (Level 3)

- These milestones are developmentally matched across these learning levels

- Across these developmental levels, there are 16 skills that are assessed such as:
o Elementary verbal components (mand, tact, intraverbal, echoic, listener)
o Independent play, Social play
o Visual perceptual, and Matching-to-sample
o Beginning academic skills (reading, writing, spelling, math)
o Grammatical and syntactical skills

Language and Learning Barriers


- While it is important to know what a student can do – it’s also important to know what they can’t do
as well

- Sometimes the elimination of a single barrier can improve multiple academic skills

- For some students, the focus of an educational program may not be academic achievement, but more
so removing a particular persistent barrier

- The assessment analyzes 24 barriers to learning such as:


o Behavior problems o Failure to generalize

o Instructional control o Hyperactivity

o Impaired verbal components o Prompt dependency

o Weak motivation o Defective scanning

VB-MAPP Training Program


An Overview of the Assessment 2 Presentation Handout
Transition Assessment
- Analyzes the skills needed to increase the probability that the student can successfully learn from a
less restrictive setting

- No single skill on this assessment is a single determiner of success, but the collective body of skills
can help educators and parents make educational decisions

- This assessment looks at various items such as:


o Reinforcer range o Ability to learn in the natural environment

o Ability to complete independent work o General self-help skills

o Rate of acquisition o Eating skills

o Ability to retain new skills o Toileting skills

Task Analysis (Curriculum Guide)


- While the milestones can be considered to be the floors of a building, the task analysis can be said to
be the steps in between those floors

- The task analysis form allows for more detailed skills tracking

- It also works to build a and not just individual skills

Conclusion
- The VB-MAPP has a variety of tools to help in many areas of education:
o Skills Assessment

o Learning Barriers Assessment

o IEP Goal Selection

o Program Placement Decisions

o Curriculum Development

VB-MAPP Training Program


An Overview of the Assessment 3 Presentation Handout

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