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What is a primary purpose of initial assessment in children with autism?
What can result from failing to conduct an adequate assessment for a child with autism?
Which of the following assessments has been noted to fail in evaluating a child's mand repertoire?
What is one of the components of the VB-MAPP?
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Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior expands the categories of which type of language?
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What type of knowledge does a behavioral approach to assessment provide?
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Which of the following is a repertoires group expanded under receptive language?
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How many developmental levels does the VB-MAPP Milestones Assessment measure?
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What type of barriers does the VB-MAPP Barriers Assessment examine?
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What is the impact of ongoing assessment for children with autism?
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What is the primary purpose of the VB MAPP: Transition Assessment?
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Which component of the VB-MAPP focuses on a checklist of skills not classified as milestones?
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How many developmental levels are presented in the VB-MAPP Milestones?
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What type of skills are assessed under the domain of Grammatical and Syntactical skills?
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Which of the following is NOT a domain listed under the VB-MAPP Milestones?
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What is included in the VB-MAPP: Placement and IEP Goals?
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Which VB-MAPP section contains a bank of IEP objectives directly linked to milestone assessments?
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Which domain would include skills like 'mands for attention'?
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What type of skills are evaluated under the 'Group and classroom skills' domain?
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What is an example of a developmental skill included in the VB-MAPP domains?
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Study Notes
Assessment for Children with Autism
- Assessment is crucial for developing effective interventions.
- Initial assessments provide a starting point for understanding a child's current skills.
- Ongoing assessments track progress and guide program adjustments.
- Inadequate assessment can result in ineffective interventions and wasted resources.
Assessing Language, Social, and Behavioral Skills
- Identify a child's existing verbal, non-verbal, and social skills, including requesting (mands), echoing (echoics), listening skills, and peer initiation.
- Identify barriers hindering skill acquisition, including language, social, behavioral, and learning challenges.
- Many assessment tools fail to adequately assess these key areas, especially mand repertoires and potential barriers.
Behavioral Framework for Assessment
- Behavioral principles help identify and quantify learning and barriers, such as motivation, reinforcement, stimulus control, and generalization.
- Behavioral analysis of human development provides a framework for assessment.
- Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior offers a framework for assessing and intervening in language and social behavior.
Skinner's Analysis of Language
- Expands traditional language categories of expressive (speaker) and receptive (listener).
- Expands "expressive language" to include verbal operants:
- Echoic
- Mand
- Tact
- Intraverbal
- Textual
- Transcriptive
- Expands "receptive language" to include four distinct repertoires:
- Listener discriminations (receptive language)
- Audience participation
- Mediator of reinforcement
- Emotional responder
VB-MAPP: Assessing and Planning for Children with Autism
- VB-MAPP is a comprehensive assessment tool with five components:
- Milestones Assessment: Measures 170 language, learning, and social milestones across three developmental levels.
- Barriers Assessment: Examines 24 common learning and language barriers.
- Transition Assessment: Provides a summary of 18 domains for planning educational needs.
- Supporting Skills and Task Analysis: Offers a checklist of additional skills and task analysis of milestones for supporting development.
- Placement and IEP Goals: Provides program development recommendations and IEP objectives based on the child's profile.
VB-MAPP Milestones: Scoring the Assessment
- Sixteen domains are assessed across three developmental levels, focusing on:
- Elementary verbal operants (echoic, mand, tact, intraverbal, etc.)
- Listener skills
- Vocal output
- Independent play
- Social skills and social play
- Visual perceptual skills and matching-to-sample
- Grammatical and syntactical skills
- Group and classroom skills
- Beginning academic skills
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Description
This quiz focuses on the assessment processes for children with autism, emphasizing the importance of initial and ongoing evaluations. It highlights the assessment of language, social, and behavioral skills, as well as the behavioral framework that aids in identifying barriers to learning. Understanding these elements is crucial for developing effective interventions.
