Evaluations

The Ages & Stages Questionnaire, Third Edition (ASQ-3) is a standardized, parent-completed screening instrument useful for documenting developmental progress in communication, gross and fine motor, problem solving, and personal-social areas for children between 1 month and 5 years, 6 months.

The Battelle Developmental Inventory – Second Edition, Normative Update (BDI-2 NU; Newborg, 2016) is an individually administered, norm-referenced instrument used to assess developmental milestones in young children.

The Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development –Fourth Edition (Bayley-4; Bayley & Aylward, 2019) may be used to identify developmental delays, chart a child’s progress, and teach parents about the child’s development. This updated version will be published in September 2019.

The Conners, Third Edition (Conners 3; Conners, 2008) are norm-referenced rating scales that assess behavioral and emotional problems in children ages 6 to 18 years, with a focus on ADHD and comorbid disorders. Teacher, parent, and self-report are available.

The Developmental Assessment of Young Children – Second Edition (DAYC-2; Voress & Maddox, 2013) is a norm-referenced instrument designed to identify possible delays in children aged birth through 5 years, 11 months in the areas of cognition, communication, social emotional development, physical development, and adaptive behavior.

The Developmental Profile – Third Edition (DP-3; Alpern, 2007) is a norm-referenced developmental screening instrument that is administered as a structured parent interview to determine the child’s present level of functioning; administration as a parent/caregiver checklist is an option when a direct interview is not feasible.

The Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP) consists of two criterion-referenced assessment instruments for use with children between birth and 6 years old- the HELP: 0-3 Years (2006; VORT) and the HELP: 3-6 years (2010; VORT), These instruments are used to track progress in the domains of cognitive, language, gross motor, fine motor, social-emotional, and self-help skills for the purposes of tracking intervention process.

The Merrill-Palmer-Revised Scales of Development (M-P-R; Roid & Sampers, 2004) is a play-based, norm-referenced instrument that is individually administered to evaluate cognitive, social-emotional, self-help, and fine and gross motor development in infants and children 1 month to 6 years, 5 months old.

The Mullen Scales of Early Learning (Mullen, 1995) is an individually administered, norm-referenced measure of early intellectual development and school readiness designed to be used with children from birth through 68 months.

The Psychoeducational Profile – Third Edition (PEP-3; Schopler, Lansing, Reichler, & Marcus, 2005) is an individually-administered, norm-referenced instrument designed to assess skills and behaviors of children with autism and communication disabilities, identifying learning strengths, uneven development, emerging abilities, and other information useful in educational programming.

Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment, Second Edition (TPBA2; Linder, 2008) is designed to evaluate children between birth and 6 years of age in structured and unstructured play settings using observation. The domains assessed include Cognitive, Social-Emotional, Communication and Language, and Sensorimotor.