VB-MAPP: Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (2nd Edition, 6th printing), Guide and Protocol Perfect Paperback – by Mark L. Sundberg (Author)

The VB-MAPP provides educators, speech pathologists, and parents with an effective means of assessing the language, learning, and social skills of children with autism or other intellectual disabilities. The VB-MAPP is based on B.F. Skinner’s behavioral analysis of language, the principles of Behavior Analysis, and typical developmental milestones. This assessment tool offers a com¬prehensive and evidenced-based approach that can help identify a child’s language needs, and potential learning barriers that may be impedinga child’s language acquisition progress. In addition, the VB-MAPP providesdirection for developing an individualized language intervention program if necessary. Each VB-MAPPFull Set contains 1 Instructor’s Guide and 1 Individual child Protocol.The Guide contains a description of how to use Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior for language assessment, as well as instructions and tips for administering the VB-MAPP Milestones, Barriers, and Transition assessments.In addition, the Guide contains a detailed section on placement, along with suggestions for IEP goals for each skill area. The VB-MAPP Individual Child Protocol contains scoring forms and charts for the milestones, language and learning barriers, transition measures, and supplemental skills.The assessment can be administered multiple times and can serve as a measure of an individual child’s language acquisition over several years. This printing of the VB-MAPP includes the new Early Echoic Skills Assessment–Revised (EESA-R) by Dr. Barbara Esch, BCBA-D, CCC-SLP. — ASIN: 0981835627 | ISBN13: 9780981835624 | ISBN-13: 978-0981835624