The main point of screening is to catch children who may be at risk for disabilities, to ensure they get further assessment, and to make sure as many children as possible get needed early intervention services. If children are already diagnosed with a disability, screening is redundant.
Watch this video for valuable, real-world insights on how one busy pediatric practice implements ASQ. Includes step-by-step office flow procedures! Read More
Use these tips to help your pediatric practice effectively and efficiently implement a paper-based screening and surveillance system using ASQ-3. Recommended tasks for various staff members are provided. Information about optional supplemental social-emotional, autism-specific, and family psychosocial screening is also included.
This resource lists the options for health care practices that want to integrate ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2 into electronic medical records (EMRs)/electronic health records (EHRs).
View the presentation to better understand the implementation process of ASQ in a pediatric office. This presentation was created by Kevin Marks, MD FAAP.
In 2012, Pediatrics in Review published this article, which explains how and why using standardized screening tools in pediatric practices is crucial to child development.
This study, published by Pediatrics in 2007, investigated the effectiveness and costs of incorporating ASQ developmental screening, into the 12- and 24-month well-child visits under “real world” conditions.
Read this policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and discover an algorithm for developmental screening in a medical home setting.