This comprehensive guide to assessment in early childhood special education offers a macro- and micro-level understanding of the essential processes and activities relevant to the assessment of young children at risk of, or having, developmental delays or disabilities. The book provides insights into the laws, regulations, processes, culturally and contextually relevant practices, and requirements that practitioners need to follow when engaged in assessment, in addition to an extensive overview of current and time-tested assessment tools designed for use by early childhood educators when evaluating young children with developmental challenges. It provides immediate guidance and support to a wide range of individuals engaged in service to young children who may have, or are already identified as having, a disability. Assessment in Early Childhood Special Education is an essential text for pre-service early childhood special educators as well as current practitioners, including day care teachers (homebased and center-based), certified early childhood special educators, and general education kindergarten through second grade teachers. It should be on the desk of every early childhood educator who works with children who may be, or have been, identified as being at risk, developmentally delayed, or disabled.
This CD-Rom is part of the Ages & Stages Questionnaires (ASQ), a flexible, culturally sensitive system for screening infants and young children for developmental delays or concerns in the crucial first 5 years of life. The CD-Rom includes all 19 questionnaires and scoring sheets translated into Spanish, plus a Spanish translation of the intervention activity sheets found in The ASQ User's Guide. Each questionnaire covers 5 key developmental areas: communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving, and personal-social. Users can print an unlimited number of forms in PDF format. Some restrictions apply; ASQ is a registered trademark of Brookes Publishing Co.
ASQ: SE(TM) components include - 8 questionnaires and corresponding scoring sheets. Parents complete the short, simple questionnaires at all or some of the 8 age intervals. Set up like ASQ(TM), these questionnaires--available in English or Spanish--prompt parents to answer 22-36 questions with most of the time, sometimes, and rarely or never. Each questionnaire takes 10-15 minutes for parents to complete and addresses the seven behavioral areas listed above. For every questionnaire, there's also a photocopiable form that allows professionals to score the test in minutes and determine the child's progress in that area. - The ASQ: SE(TM) User's Guide. Clear and comprehensive, the User's Guide walks professionals step-by-step through the process of implementing ASQ: SE(TM). It provides detailed technical data; instructions on administering the questionnaires with sensitivity to children's environmental, cultural, and developmental differences; helpful case examples; and creative activities and lists of social-emotional behaviors professionals can share with parents for use with each age group. Spanish translations of letters to parents and selected forms are also included.
ASQ(R) SE-2 Learning Activities & More are photocopiable sheets of developmentally appropriate, stimulating learning activities, informational newsletters, and topical tip sheets professionals can give to parents to support their children's social-emotional development.
The ASQ(R) SE-2; Quick Start Guide is a convenient, at-a-glance guide that keeps ASQ: SE-2 scoring and administration basics right at the fingertips. Perfect for busy professionals on the go, this Quick Start Guide is laminated, lightweight, and so cost-effective that every professional in a program can have one (it (TM)s sold in a package of 5). ASQ: SE-2 users will turn to the Quick Start Guide for clear, simple directions on selecting the correct questionnaire, scoring ASQ: SE-2, and communicating results to parents. The Quick Start Guide is part of the ASQ: SE-2 screening system. ASQ: SE-2 is the NEW edition of the bestselling screener trusted to uncover possible social-emotional issues as early as possible during the crucial first 6 years of life. The 9 age-appropriate ASQ: SE-2 questionnaires effectively screen 7 key developmental areas: self-regulation, compliance, adaptive functioning, autonomy, affect, social-communication, and interaction with people. The second edition of ASQ: SE-2 has been revised and updated with invaluable new features, including a NEW 2 month questionnaire, an expanded age range, updated cutoff scores, new behavior and communication items, and more updates to help you better support families and promote social-emotional development. Learn more about ASQ: SE-2 and its companion developmental screener, ASQ(R)-3--the valid, reliable, and trusted tool for screening children during the crucial first 51/2 years of life.
Everything you need to start screening children with ASQ-3(tm), the Spanish Starter Kit includes 21 photocopiable print masters of the questionnaires and scoring sheets in Spanish, a CD-ROM with printable PDF questionnaires, the ASQ-3(tm) User's Guide in English, and a FREE ASQ-3(tm) Quick Start Guide. The Starter Kit is part of ASQ-3(tm), the bestselling screener trusted for more than 15 years to pinpoint delays as early as possible during the crucial first 5 years of life. ASQ-3 questionnaires are reliable and valid, parent-completed, cost effective, recommended by top organizations, and easy to administer and score. The 21 age-appropriate questionnaires effectively screen five key developmental areas: communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving, and personal-social. Learn more about the complete ASQ-3 system, and discover ASQ:SE, the screener that reliably identifies young children at risk for social or emotional difficulties. View our recorded webinar: Using the ASQ with Diverse Families presented by Jane Squires and Elizabeth Twombly. Order the complete ASQ-3 system all at once.
An authoritative guide for the assessment of children in this age group. Stages of development for each age group are clearly described in the illustrated sequences which include sections on posture and large movements, vision and fine movements, hearing and speech, and social behaviour and play. Many procedures require only a minimum of special facilities, usually some common play material, and a reasonably-sized-quiet room.
"This fully updated new edition of From Birth to Five Years: Practical developmental examination is a step-by-step 'how to' guide to the developmental examination of pre-school children. Based on up-to-date research into current child development philosophies and practices, this text supports the wider group of professionals who are required to assess children's developmental progress as part of their day-to-day working practices. It begins with a practical framework for developmental examination, then progresses through each of the key developmental domains, offering guidance on enquiry and observation, and on how to chart typical and atypical patterns, with red flags for recognising significant delay or disordered development. Advice is also given on how to make sense of the findings and how best to communicate this information to parents. To consolidate and expand on the practical and theoretical information across this book and its companion, From Birth to Five Years: Practical Developmental Examination, an updated companion website is available at www.routledge.com/cw/sharma, which includes the following additional learning material: An interactive timeline of the key developmental domains Introductions to theory with links to further reading Research summaries Video clips demonstrating practical assessment skills. Downloadable resources including pictures to support examination of verbal and non- verbal development, and tips to facilitate and promote development. Developed alongside the original Mary Sheridan's From Birth to Five Years: Children's developmental progress, this unique guide expands on its normative developmental stages by offering practical guidance for health, education and social care professionals, or anyone concerned with monitoring children's developmental progress"--
Enhance the development of infants and young children with more than 400 fun, fast, and developmentally appropriate learning activities, now in a new edition specially developed to complement ASQ-3.
With this in-depth, easy-to-use tool, your program can reliably assess and monitor social-emotional development in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers at risk for delays or challenges. An ideal followup to screeners such as ASQ:SE, the two-part SEAM(tm) assessment reveals detailed qualitative information on childrenâe(tm)s social-emotional competence-- and identifies their caregiversâe(tm) strengths and areas of need. Easy to learn and implement, SEAM can be used by a wide variety of early childhood professionals, including those with little or no training in mental-health or behavioral interventions. SEAM helps your program: support development of important social-emotional skills in order to minimize challenging behaviors build strong, proactive partnerships with families promote positive parentâe"child interactions in the critical first years of life assist with developing developmentally appropriate goals and intervention activities monitor child progress toward social-emotional goals SEAM is a two-part assessment; All forms are available in English and Spanish on the CD-ROM or e-book. SEAM Tool The main SEAM includes three intervals with different developmental ranges: Infant (2-18 months), Toddler (18-36 months), and Preschool (36-66 months). Each interval assesses 10 child benchmarks critical to social-emotional competence, including empathy, adaptive skills, self-image, emotional responses, and healthy interactions with others. SEAM is flexible enough to meet your specific needs--parents/caregivers can complete it independently, or you can conduct it jointly with them if they need extra guidance. The SEAM system also includes SEAM with Ages, an alternate version of the tool annotated with a helpful list of age ranges for each item. This version makes it easy to give caregivers general guidance on how social-emotional skills typically develop and where their childâe(tm)s development fits on the continuum. SEAM Family Profile The Family Profile assesses parent and caregiver strengths and helps identify areas in which they need more supports and resources to foster their childâe(tm)s social-emotional skills. Like the main SEAM, the Family Profile assessment includes three intervals--Infant, Toddler, and Preschool. Each interval measures four benchmarks key to a nurturing home environment: responding to needs, providing activities and play, providing predictable routines and an appropriate environment, and ensuring home safety. List of SEAM benchmarks Child participates in healthy interactions Child expresses a range of emotions Child regulates social-emotional responses Child begins to show empathy for others Child attends to and engages with others Child explores hands and feet and surroundings (for infants)/demonstrates independence (for toddlers/preschoolers) Child displays a positive self-image Child regulates activity level Child cooperates with daily routines and requests Child shows a range of adaptive skills View the webinar recording of Using the Social-Emotional Assessment/Evaluation Measure (SEAM(tm)) with Young Children, presented by Jane Squires, Ph.D., and Misti Waddell, M.S. See which domain of school readiness in the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework this tool addresses.
