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The VPA™: Assessment & Clinical Reasoning: facilitator notes

Presenter cues, worked examples, and answer keys for the case slides and discussion prompts · Module 2.

Presenter-side material. Not part of the learner module body and not counted toward contact hours. Model answers are teaching examples. Adapt to your state practice act, payer rules, and district policy.

Module 2

VPA™ Architecture

~22 min · 9 slides

Presenter cues

  • Repeat the canonical phrasing every time: 15 skills across 5 domains.
  • Mini VPA™ flags; Full VPA™ measures. Say it before and after the instrument slide.
  • Show the Mini administration screenshot and point at the three regions: Say/Do script, level ladder, scoring panel.

Answer key

Which instrument, when?
Mini VPA™ when you need to decide whether measurement is warranted — one probe at each of Levels 1–5, caseload-scale. Full VPA™ when a flag exists, when you are writing present levels or goals, or when a re-assessment must be comparable to a prior battery. The Mini is never a stand-alone plan of care.
When do you add a standardized adjunct?
When one flagged skill needs depth for eligibility, when a payer or district requires a norm-referenced score, or when the team disagrees about whether a finding is real. Adjuncts deepen a flagged area; they do not replace the level profile.