Conducting the VB-MAPP for children with Autism
In the previous weeks I have been doing a lot of assessments using Dr. Sundbergs VB-MAPP. As I have written previously it´s a great assessment tool to design and monitor ABA programs for early learners with autism (probably others also..). And I´m now using VB-MAPP instead of ABLLS-R. This to get some more experience with VB-MAPP, maybe I will use ABLLS-R for some children in the future. I´m not sure yet.
As it´s a great tool, there are some things I struggle with so far. This may be due to lack of experience with the assessment tool, or is it due to the design of VB-MAPP?
The element of VB-MAPP that I so far experience as a weakness of the tool, it that to many milestones seems to be done by clinical judgement, and is difficult and seems impossible to test objectively in a test-session. This also includes some of the milestones that’s marked with T for Testing. I´m of course going to get more experience, and exchange my experience with others to see if there are smarter and better ways for doing this. And of course I´m really interested in hearing your experience……
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