Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: Social-Emotional in Chinese (ASQ®:SE-2 Chinese)

A Parent-Completed Child Monitoring System for Social-Emotional Behaviors

Early Childhood

ASQ®:SE-2 is the most trusted and cost-effective way to screen young children for social and emotional issues in the critical first 6 years of life. With ASQ:SE-2 Chinese, early childhood professionals will have a reliable tool for screening children from Chinese-speaking families for social-emotional delays.

Available TranslationsArabic, English, French, Spanish, Vietnamese

Reviewed by Chinese-speaking experts to ensure accuracy and accessibility across dialects, ASQ:SE-2 Chinese includes questionnaires in both Simplified and Traditional characters, primarily for use with Chinese-speaking families in North America. These 9 age-appropriate questionnaires (2, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, and 60 months) effectively screen 7 key social-emotional areas: self-regulation, compliance, adaptive functioning, autonomy, affect, social-communication, and interaction with people.

How to Use ASQ:SE-2 Questionnaires

Fast and easy to use, ASQ:SE-2 questionnaires take just 10–15 minutes for parents to complete. First, parents fill out the questionnaire, checking the response that best describes their child’s behavior: often or always, sometimes, or rarely or never. Clear questions help parents complete the questionnaires quickly and accurately, and open-ended questions ask about any related parental concerns. Professionals score the questionnaire in just 2–3 minutes, and then transfer a total score to a simple summary sheet along with any concerns the parent has noted. The summary sheet indicates whether any follow-up should be considered.

• Total scores that fall in the graph’s range of risk (dark shaded zone) indicate the child may need further evaluation.
• A total score in the “monitoring” zone (light shaded area) helps identify children that may require follow-up actions based on items of concern. Professionals can work with parents to address behaviors of concern and provide social-emotional development information sheets and activities to help their child make progress before the next screening.
• Scores outside the shaded zones mean the child’s social-emotional development appears to be developing on schedule. Parents can monitor their child’s development by rescreening at the next ASQ:SE-2 interval.

The ASQ:SE-2 Chinese CD-ROM includes a full set of questionnaires and supplemental materials in both Simplified and Traditional characters. Supplemental materials include introductory information about the translation and reproducible forms that can be used to help administer the tool with families. The CD-ROM comes with a keycode that unlocks questionnaires on ASQ® Online.

Learn more about ASQ:SE-2 and its companion developmental screener, ASQ®-3—the valid, reliable, and trusted tool for screening children during the crucial first 6 years of life.

Authors: Jane Squires Ph.D., Diane Bricker Ph.D., Elizabeth Twombly M.S. Translators: Huichao Xie Ph.D., Ching-I Chen Ph.D. With Authors: Robert Hoselton, Kimberly Murphy, Jill Dolata M.A., CCC-SLP, Suzanne Yockelson Ph.D., BCBA, Maura Schoen Davis Ph.D, Younghee Kim Ph.D.