Imitation Level 2 - VB-MAPP Data Sheets!

Who is excited for more data sheets?!?! You mean you aren't tired of them yet? I keep getting emails with requests for more and it makes me so excited to think that someone is waiting for me write a blog post dedicated to... a data sheet. Sometimes I think about how boring my life would have been if I was an accountant or something (spreadsheets? ew.), but people must think we are a snore, the way we ABA teachers talk when we get going on about a data sheet ("Oh girl, don't even get me STARTED!"). 

This one is another awesome resource that has floated around in my school system. It includes all objectives for Imitation in Level 2. If you are looking for Level 1 imitation, check out this post.

Imitation is a great way to start working toward increasing your student's attending and having them get the base for following instructions and increase learning skills. Most new skills are learned by imitating someone else, whether it's a new hairstyle on Youtube or watching your mom cut a pineapple. The ability to imitate others doesn't come so naturally to our guys so we need to work on it and be aware of it's importance. 

Check out the latest and greatest data sheet HERE!


*Also, just a disclaimer: I have some pretty cool, non-boring friends who are accountants. 

Mand Data Sheets: Levels 1,2, and 3 on the VB-MAPP!

This is a nice little packet for all of the Mand objectives on the VB-MAPP. I love the way this data sheet is laid out - it includes all the criteria for each objective and it gives space to write in what you observe. 

Some of those Level 3 mands are tough right?! Especially the intraverbal mands... whew. Even my most verbal guys right now aren't even close to that yet. Those are some high level expectations for our kiddos with autism. I applaud you if you are seeing your students get there! 

I got this data sheet from a colleague who got it from another teacher, and so on. It has been floating around our department so I am unsure who exactly made it but I hope it spreads far and wide for all VB-MAPP testers out there to use! 

Here is the link! - Happy Friday! :)

sample page for level 2!

Level 1 Social Behavior and Play (VB-MAPP)

My wonderful co-worker created this data sheet for the section of social behavior and play on the VB-MAPP. It is a no frills, get the job done, simple and easy data sheet! I love it because it is all on one page and you can carve out an hour to observe your student and check off what he/she is doing by simply following the data sheet. It includes the criteria so all you have to do is plug it back into your score sheet and you are DUNZO! (done-zo? um... finished!)

Hooray for super cool co-workers who do this kind of thing on their own free time and then share the goods. We need all teachers to be this way right?!?!

Here is the link!!! Get it while it's hot ;)

This social stuff is very important when you are looking at a very early learner who needs a lot of support in becoming aware of his/her peers. Teaching things like following others or even just engaging in parallel play can be difficult. Remember to always assess where the weaknesses are and target them so you know exactly how to help your little guys. 

Free Adapted Pete the Cat book!

Last week I made an adapted book for Pete The Cat: I Love My White Shoes. I have discussed my love for Pete in another post and I highly recommend that you introduce him to your kids if you have not done so already! 

I used this book during circle with my kids and it went better than I could have expected! I carefully chose how I would adapt it, keeping in mind the need for consistency and simplicity. One of my students was independently reading the book within a day based on the images associated with the main phrases in the book. Prior to using this adapted version, he needed verbal prompting and modeling to chime in with "Did Pete cry?", "Goodness no!", "Oh no!", and even the song part. Now, he is doing all of the parts completely independently which is very exciting! I am sending home his own copy so that he can impress his parents with those awesome skills! 

This book hits on a lot of learning points. With the same Pete image on each page, it helps the students become familiar with the character and help them recognize him. The book also teaches color identification, facial expressions, and labels/vocabulary for the items he steps in. 

Depending on the students you are using it with, you can adapt it even further by printing and laminating certain parts of the book, such as the color parts or the things he steps in and then have the students match the pictures to the book. You could also print the pictures onto cards and have the students help tell the story or even predict what happens next by selecting the corresponding card. There are many great ways to use this book and I hope that your students enjoy it as much as mine have! 

(The last page includes pictures of water to velcro onto the shoes for when he has wet shoes.)

Here is the link to the Pete the Cat book!

Here is a sample page from the book!

More VB-MAPP materials! (Level 2 - Tact)

Tonight I decided to check my email for this blog and I had a lot of emails with requests for more materials (specifically VB-MAPP data sheets). I was really touched knowing there are people out there reading this blog... and I was also completely guilt stricken for taking a 5 month hiatus from sharing with you all! 

Last night and today I spent about 7 hours in total making picture cards and a data sheet that can be used to test the Level 2-7 TACT objective on the VB-MAPP. I am pretty proud of this document because I sized each item to perfection and I am usually rather awful at anything computer related!

The materials provided are for the objective that is testing the ability to tact 50 items, across 3 examples each. I thought of 50 items that are common for preschoolers, broke them into categories, and looked for 3 different pictures for each item. There are 150 pictures total. The document is almost 40 pages long so get ready to dominate the printer! 

Download the picture cards HERE!!!

Download the data sheet HERE!!! 

I hope you all enjoy! Please send more emails so that I stay connected and accountable!

EDIT: updated on Jan. 27, 2014: I have a new data sheet posted that is much better than the one included in this post. check it out here

An example of one of my pages!

Imitation: Level 1 in the VB-MAPP

'Tis the season to administer the VB-MAPP!

Not only is it the time of year for all those fun holidays, it is also the time for assessing our students and their skills. By now, we should have an idea of where our kiddos are and what will motivate them to participate in the assessment. Complete those VB-MAPPs by Thanksgiving break and then re-administer at the end of the year before summer... and be amazed at all the progress! This is the FUN part of taking data!

I plan on posting data sheets for each section of the VB-MAPP (as needed) over the next few weeks as I finish up testing my students. Today, I present you with a data sheet to test all Imitation goals in Level 1. Happy Election Day! (which counts as a holiday because it was a teacher work day :)

DOWNLOAD HERE!!

Again, this is an awesome resource provided by my wonderful place of employment!

Tact List for the VB-MAPP

This is a resource offered by the Department of Special Education at the county public school I work in. It is great and has a complete list of 1,110 words separated into categories such as Colors, Animals, Letters, Emotions, Community Helpers, Toys, and many more! Some really awesome teachers put it together so I am hoping that their hard work will pay off by having many other people share in using it!

Although the title says to use it for testing tacts on the VB-MAPP, it can also be used to think of ideas that your students can mand for. It would be great for coming up with items to use for teaching feature, function, class... and more!

For those who are new to VB-MAPP and verbal behavior lingo in general, a tact is a fancy word for "label" and mand is a fancy word for "request".

So if you were to point to a yellow fruit and say, "What is that?" to your student and he correctly answers, "banana" - he has made a successful tact! If a banana was sitting on the table and your student pointed to it and said "banana" because he was hungry and it happened to be snack time... you could probably assume he is making a mand :)

Eventually, we want those words in that list to be accompanied with other words and carrier phrases, etc. Such as this tact: "I see a monkey eating an abnormally tiny banana" (okay, if your young student with autism says this, call me and tell me what your secret is!) or a mand: "Can I have a banana for breakfast?"

HERE IS THE DOWNLOAD!!!

Edit: There were some formatting issues when putting into Google Docs. I am assuming this is because it is an Excel doc but once you download it to your own computer, it should work just fine!