Assessment

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Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and

Placement Program:
The VB-MAPP
• The VB-MAPP is an assessment based on Skinner’s (1957) analysis of
verbal behavior, a description of a behavioral analysis of language.

• There are 5 components to the VB-MAPP that are used:

• to asses language and other related skills (Milestones)
• to assess behaviors that interfere with learning those skills
• to determine appropriate educational placements(Transition)
• to assist in developing instructional objectives
• Skills Tracking

• The VB-MAPP is structured according to typical language development

milestones.

• It represents over 30 years of research and field test data from

approximately 75 typically developing children and over 200 children with
autism.
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