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The Verbal Behavior Milestone Assessment and Placement Program (the VB-MAPP) offers a new generation of the application of B. F. Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior to language assessment for children with autism or other developmental disabilities. The VB-MAPP is a criterion referenced assessment tool, curriculum guide, and skill tracking system that is based on established developmental milestones, and research from the field of behavior analysis. Participants will learn how to use the five components of the VB-MAPP in order to identify the learning, language, and social needs of a child with autism and to develop an intervention program that addresses those needs. In addition, participants will learn how to use Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior to analyze weak or defective verbal skills, and to implement intervention strategies designed to ameliorate verbal deficits.
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