Developmental Screening Parent Report Instruments
Minnesota Interagency Developmental Screening Task Force – http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fh/mch/devscrn/instruments.html
Tool
Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) – 1998, 2012 Ages & Stages Questionnaire, 3rd Ed. (ASQ-3) - 2008
Purpose
“To determine if a child has an undiagnosed developmental disability
that requires further evaluation”
A parent questionnaire designed to assist professionals with
the screening and identification of young children with
developmental delays.
Developmental areas
or methods
Tests on 8 different developmental areas: Global/cognitive, expressive
language and articulation, receptive language, fine motor, gross motor,
behavior, social-emotional, self-help, school and other
Communication, Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Problem Solving,
Personal-Social
Age targeted by tool
0-8 years
Birth-66 months
Cultural, ethnic,
linguistic sensitivity
Normed on a sample conforming to proportions in the US Census
Bureau.
Written at a 4th- 6th grade reading level.
Written at 4th to 5th grade reading level.
English, Spanish, French and Korean translations available.
Available in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
Reliability
Inter-rater: 0.95
Internal consistency: 0.51-0.85
Test-retest: 0.88
Test-retest: 0.92
Inter-observer: 0.93
Validity
Concurrent: 0.60-0.86
Concurrent: .86
Discriminant validity data available in manual
Sensitivity/Specificity
Sensitivity: 75%
Sensitivity: 86.1%
Specificity: 74%
Specificity: 85.6%
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Tool
Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) – 1998, 2012 Ages & Stages Questionnaire, 3rd Ed. (ASQ-3) - 2008
Practicality (time to
2 – 5 minutes to complete, 10 items
administer and score,
2 minutes to score
ease of administration)
10-15 minutes to complete
Minimum expertise for Can be completed independently by parents at home or in clinic setting
screeners and scorers or by interview in person or over the phone
Scoring can be done by clerical staff or paraprofessionals who
have been instructed by professional staff
2-3 minutes to score
Training
Technical manual is available online, along with guidance for health care Manuals, videos, and seminars are available
professionals for integrating PEDS into office visits.
Online Component
available
PEDSonline
ASQ Pro for single-site programs and
ASQ Enterprise for multi-site programs: automated scoring
and report generation
ASQ Family Access for online questionnaire completion
Cost
$36 for complete set; $18 for pack of 50 response forms, $79.95 for
(may change over time; manual
contact publisher)
$275 for starter kit (forms are reproducible)
Publisher
Ellsworth and Vandermeer Press
Brookes Publishing Co.
http://www.pedstest.com
http://www.brookespublishing.com/resourcecenter/screening-and-assessment/asq/
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$295 for materials kit
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