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High Quality Parent-Report Developmental Screening Tools
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Instrument
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Ages & Stages Questionnaires® (ASQ): A Parent-Completed, Child-Monitoring System, Second Edition
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Child Development Inventory (CDI) for Assessing Toddlers and Preschoolers
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Parents’ Evaluation of Development Status (PEDS)
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Description (adapted from each tool’s promotional materials)
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A low-cost, reliable way to screen infants and young children for developmental delays (ans social emotional problems with ASQ:SE) during the first 5 years of life
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A research-based questionnaire that systematically obtains the parent’s report of their child’s present problem, including the child’s strengths and possible problems
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A fast and inexpensive method for detecting developmental and behavioral problems in children from birth to age eight
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For use with
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Children from 4 months to 5 years; the questionnaires can be used for one-time screening or as part of a monitoring program by Child Find, home visitors, pediatricians, and other early childhood professionals
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Children from 15 months to 6 years, when a child’s development concerns parents or professionals (the CDI is “too long for groups of presumably ‘normal’ children”[1])
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Children from birth to 8 years; the questionnaire can be used well-child visits and at sick- or return-visits for health care professionals, and annually or semi-annually for early childhood professionals
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Questionnaire items
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19 questionnaires for children of different ages, each containing 30 items
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A single questionnaire for the entire age range containing 300 items
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A single questionnaire for the entire age range containing 10 items
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Developmental areas screened
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Communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving, and personal-social, plus self-regulation, compliance, language, adaptive behaviors, autonomy, affect, and interaction with people with ASQ:SE
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Social, self-help, gross motor, fine motor, expressive language, language comprehension, letters, numbers, and general development
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Global/cognitive, expressive language and articulation, receptive language, fine motor, gross motor, behavior, social-emotional, self-help, school, and health
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Links to developmental milestones
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Yes
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No
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No
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Sample item
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The parents answers Yes, Sometimes, or Not Yet: Does your child stack a small block or toy on top of another one? (18-month questionnaire, fine motor area)
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The parent marks Yes or No: Climbs into an adult size chair and seats self. (gross motor area)
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The parent circles No, Yes, or A Little and adds comments: Do you have any concerns about how your child talks and makes speech sounds? (expressive language and articulation area)
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Initial cost
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ASQ System: $199
Includes: The ASQ User’s Guide and a master set of 19 questionnaires and scoring sheets on paper or CD-ROM.
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CDI Starter Set: $72
Includes: 10 reusable Parent Questionnaire Booklets, 1 pad of 25 Answer Sheets, 1 pad of 25 Profiles, and 1 Manual and Scoring Template.
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PEDS Set: $30
Includes: 1 Brief Administration and Scoring Guide, 1 pad of 50 Response Forms, 1 pad of 50 Score & Interpretation Forms.
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Ability to photocopy
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Yes. All forms may be photocopied at no extra charge.
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No. Replacement form pads are $12.50 each.
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No. Replacement pads are $15 each.
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Time to complete and score
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10–15 minutes for parents to complete, and 2–3 minutes for professionals to score
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20–30 minutes for parents to complete
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5 minutes for parents to complete, and 2 minutes for professionals to score
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Screening setting
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At home, on a home visit, at a center, in a waiting area
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At home, on a home visit, at a center, in a waiting area
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At home, on a home visit, at a center, in a waiting area
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Standardization
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Standardized with 8,059 questionnaires with a national sample infants and young children
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Standardized on 568 children from South Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Standardized on a national sample of 2,800 children
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Validity
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84%; validated on 2,008 children in Oregon, Ohio, and Hawaii
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86%–87%; validated on 43 toddlers and preschoolers enrolled at a routine neonatal high-risk follow-up clinic[2]
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Percentage to come; validated on a national sample of 771 children
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Sensitivity
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72%
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80%–100%
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74%–79%
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Specificity
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86%
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94–96%
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70%–80%
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Reading Level
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Questionnaires are written at a 4–6th–grade level
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Questionnaire is written at a 7th–8th-grade level
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Questionnaire is written at a 5th-grade level |
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Languages
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English, Spanish, French, Korean, and Norwegian (more in development)
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English and Spanish
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English, Spanish, and Vietnamese
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Training options
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Video training (ASQ Scoring and Referral, ASQ on a Home Visit, ASQ:SE in Practice); on-site customized seminars on ASQ and/or ASQ:SE; and annual ASQ and ASQ:SE seminars, including "train-the-trainer" workshops
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PowerPoint slide shows (PEDS Presentations), and additional training materials available in PDF format
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Companions
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Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: Social Emotional (ASQ:SE), Ages & Stages Learning Activities, and The ASQ Manager (software for managing ASQ coming in April 2006)
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Infant Development Inventory, Child Development Review Parent Questionnaire, Child Development Chart, Teacher’s Observation Guide, Developmental Wall Charts, and Child Development Review Manual
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PEDS Child Development Screening Test (online)
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Publisher
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Brookes Publishing
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Behavior Science Systems
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Ellsworth and Vandermeer Press
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| Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this chart is accurate, according to the latest information available from the publishers of each of the tools. Please contact the publishers directly with any questions. |
