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Ages & Stages

THE QUESTIONNAIRES

The Ages & Stages Questionnaires® , which are also available in Spanish, French, and Korean, are color coded for easy reference. The questionnaires can be mailed to parents and completed in the home environment, posted on a password-protected web site and downloaded and completed by parents, completed with the assistance of a nurse or social worker on a home visit or during a telephone interview, completed by parents at a medical clinic prior to a well-child checkup, or completed by a child’s regular caregiver at a child care center.

Each questionnaire has a title page with an area containing a shaded drawing of a mother and child. When photocopying, a program logo or agency contact information may be placed in this shaded area so that it will appear on all duplicated questionnaires. If the questionnaires are to be used in mail-back format, the address of the program should be typed or stamped on the mail-back sheet, which is also included on this CD-ROM, for easy return by parents.

Each questionnaire contains 30 questions, grouped by developmental area, about a child’s everyday activities. To promote readability and parental identification with the forms, questionnaire items are worded with alternating male and female pronouns; where possible, small illustrations are provided with the questionnaire items.

In 1997, with the passage of the amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), came a call for early detection of social or emotional problems in young children. In response to this urgent need, we have developed the Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: Social Emotional—available in both English and Spanish—and an accompanying User’s Guide. This screening tool, meant to be used in conjunction with a general developmental tool (like the ASQ) that assesses cognitive, communicative, and motor development, helps identify the need for further social and emotional behavior assessment in children at eight age intervals: 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, and 60 months. These eight ASQ:SE questionnaires each address seven behavioral areas: self-regulation, compliance, communication, adaptive functioning, autonomy, affect, and interaction with people. The ASQ:SE CD-ROM, available in English or Spanish, contains the ASQ:SE questionnaires and social-emotional development activities from The ASQ:SE User's Guide. The videotape ASQ:SE in Practice explains in further detail how to use the ASQ:SE questionnaires in a variety of settings and explains how to score and interpret ASQ:SE results.

Anyone who spends time with a child on a regular basis, such as parents, caregivers, foster parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles, is qualified to answer the questionnaire items. If parents or caregivers are not sure whether a child can do a particular activity described in a questionnaire item, they should try that activity with the child before answering the question.

Household items and toys such as blocks, pencils, paper, and small jars may be needed for the child to demonstrate some of the targeted skills. A list of materials needed for completion of each questionnaire can be found in Appendix E of the User’s Guide. Parents can take a few minutes observing the child and trying activities before answering all of the questions.