Program Highlights

Highlights of the Curriculum

• A developmental skills inventory for individuals with language impairments

• Based on B. F. Skinner's work in Verbal Behavior

• A behavior analytic account of language development

• Takes into account environmental conditions that promote learning

• Evaluate sets of skills as they occur developmentally

• Many different domains, areas, categories, and skills

• Detailed progression in most domains areas

• The items evaluate different skills and tell you what a child can and cannot do at the time of the assessment

• Comprehensive

• Developmental sequence of items

• Leads to goals and objectives

• Can be used repeatedly

• Used to monitor progress

• Used to develop new skill areas as others are mastered (a curriculum)

• Language focused

• Identification of critical language skills needed to advance skills development in many areas

• Identifies language and other skills in need of intervention

• Can build on strengths

• Remediate weaknesses