ABLLS-R Assessment Overview

Week 13 Assessments

• ABLLS-R (Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills - Revised): A comprehensive tool for evaluating a child's language and learning proficiency.
• Criterion Referenced: Assessment is based on observed child skills.
• Age Range: Birth to 12 years

Purpose of ABLLS-R

• Identify strengths and weaknesses: Determines a child's communication and learning abilities in various areas.
• Develop targeted interventions: Enables practitioners to create specific interventions promoting effective learning and enhanced language proficiency.

Section 1: Basic Learner Skills Assessment

• Includes areas like cooperation, visual performance, receptive language, imitation, vocal imitation, requests, labeling, spontaneous vocalizations, syntax and grammar, play, social interaction, group instruction, following routines, and generalized responding.

Section 2: Academic Skills Assessment

• Covers reading, math, writing, and spelling skills.

Section 3: Self-Help Skills

• Includes dressing, eating, grooming, and toileting skills.

Section 4: Motor Skills Assessment

• Consists of gross motor and fine motor skills.

Benefits of Using ABLLS-R

• Establish clear baseline data.
• Track progress over time.
• Facilitate individualized education plans (IEPs).
• Enables educators to tailor strategies to meet individual needs.

Challenges of Using ABLLS-R

• Time constraints.
• Need for training.
• Potential biases in assessment.

Purpose of VB-Mapp

• Evaluate language, learning, and social skills: Designed for children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
• Assess skills: Evaluates a child's current skills and identifies barriers to progress.
• Identify needs: Analyses a child's needs to guide curriculum development.
• Track growth: Provides baseline assessment and opportunities for follow-up assessments to monitor progress.
• Inform IEP development: Guides the development of individualized education programs.

VB-MAPP Milestones Assessment

• Criterion Referenced: The assessment is based on pre-determined criteria (milestones).
• Age Range: 0-4 years (can be used for language delays over 4).
• Representative Sample: Designed to capture existing verbal and related skills.
• Developmental Levels: 0-18 months, 18-30 months, and 30-48 months.
• Skills Assessed: Includes skills like manding, tacting, echoic, intraverbal, visual-perceptual skills, and more.
• Early Academics, Classroom Skills: Includes components for early academic skill development.

VB-MAPP Barriers Assessment

• 24 Common Barriers: Identifies common learning and language acquisition barriers for children with autism.
• Behavior Analysis: Focuses on pinpointing specific problem behaviors and obstacles hindering communication and learning.

VB-MAPP Transition Assessment

• 18 Assessment Areas: Provides assessment of a child's progress for a less restrictive learning environment.
• Measurable Progress: Identifies whether a child is making meaningful progress and possesses skills for a less restrictive learning environment.
• IEP Team Decision-Making: Provides data for efficient decision-making by the IEP team.

Milestones Levels

• Level 1 (0-18 months): Includes requesting, labeling, visual perception, matching, and independent play skills.
• Level 2 (18-30 months): Includes skills like prompted/unprompted conversation, classroom routines, and linguistic structure.
• Level 3 (30-48 months): Adds reading, writing, and mathematics.

AFLS (Assessment of Functional Living Skills)

• Comprehensive Tool: Designed to assess and teach fundamental skills for independence in various settings.
• Practical Skills: Focuses on practical, real-world skills.
• Age Range: 2 years and up.
• Domains: Basic living skills, home skills, community participation skills, school skills, vocational skills, independent living skills, and social skills.

EFL (Essential for Living Assessment)

• Comprehensive Assessment: Curriculum-based for children and adults of all ages.
• Targeted Skill Development: Used to build, assess, and implement skills in communication, language, basic living, social, functional academics, tolerating, and problem behavior.
• Must-Have Skills (Essential Eight): A core set of skills including requests, waiting, accepting removals and transitions, completing tasks, accepting "no," following safety directions, daily living tasks linked to health and safety, and tolerating health and safety scenarios.

FISH (Functional Independence Skills Handbook)

• Assessment and Curriculum: Designed to determine skills for individuals with developmental disabilities.
• Seven Skill Domains: Includes adaptive behavior, affective (emotional), cognitive, sensorimotor, social, speech and language, and vocational skills.

Resources for Purchasing Assessments

• Provides links and pricing associated with purchasing various assessments.

Grading Rubric

• Criteria for evaluating projects based on assessment completion of VB-Mapp, ABLLS-R, and reports.

Explore the ABLLS-R, a key assessment tool for evaluating children's language and learning skills from birth to 12 years. This quiz delves into the components of the assessment, highlighting how it identifies strengths and weaknesses for targeted interventions.