VB-MAPP
As I have started to assess many of the children with ASD using Sundbergs VB-MAPP, I constantly gather more and more experience. And to day one of my colleagues pointed out a possible strange aspect of the VB-MAPP.
As we had finished the milestone-assessment we moved on to the skill-tracing and discovered that there may be some logical difficulties in the link between them. As the milestone is if the child uses 4 adjectives and 4 adverbs in sentences, one of the skills in the skill-tracing is the ability to name relatives. This child mastered the milestone, but not the mentioned skill. How do this relate?
Of course one explanation is that the skills from the skill-tracing are skills that facilitate the development of the milestones, and this makes sense. But on the other hand it´s not making total sense that you can master a milestone, but not master the skills that are supposed to facilitate it.
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Have you tried asking Dr. Sundberg himself about this?
Since he was involved in the field-testing, I would assume that he would be able to explain the rationale, and if it’s some kind of typo, he might appreciate hearing about it.
No, I have not done this yet. But that´s a really good idea, I will be doing it soon. Tanks!!