Behavioral Language Assessment Part 2 (VB-MAPP) - 700 Words

Summary The topic for today’s reading was, Behavioral Language Assessment: Part 2 (VB-MAPP). In one of the assigned readings, Assessing Your Child, we read how most speech pathologists look at language as either expressive or receptive, and that talking is a learned behavior controlled by environmental variables such as motivation, reinforcement, and antecedent stimuli. As we talk, we receive some sort of acknowledgement for our speech and this is how language begins to take shape in typically developing babies. Speech pathologist call expressive language to what is known as the four primary verbal operant (the mand, tact, echoic, and interverbal), and receptive language to the nonverbal operant (imitation, and visual performance).†¦show more content†¦Their purpose is to determine what aspects of a childs verbal repertoire are weak and where to begin a language intervention program, which is done by testing the childs language skills (the mand, tact, echoic, interverbal, imitation, and visual performance) and presenting them with an increasingly complex set of receptive and expressive tasks. The primary goal of these language assessments is to identify a childs age-equivalent linguistic level, which are obtained by a comparison of the childs score on the test to the average language abilities of a large group of typically developing children. Language assessments that focus on age-equivalent scores, and the traditional receptive and expressive distinction, are less useful to parent and teachers who simply need direction for working with a particular child. Finally, we should never forget the role that an early intervention plays in the child’s language development. Barbera Introduction, presented how an early intervention is critical for working with children who have some severe difficulties with language, socializing or communicating. Because treatment programs are more effective when started at early age including disorders as mental retardation and pervasive developmental disorders like autism, which are considered the most difficult to treat by the American Psychiatrist Association’sShow MoreRelatedThe Mapp, Curriculum Based Measurement, And The Social Skills Improvement System1996 Words   |  8 PagesThe three assessments that I will be comparing and contrasting are the VB-MAPP, Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM), and the Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS). These assessments have a few things in common. First, they all measure student growth and progress in a clear, visual manner. For example, both parts of the SSIS address difficulties related to problem behavior. The targeted assessments (the Social Skills Improvement System) rating scale clearly demonstrates areas of difficulty in social