ASQ®-3 User's Guide

Authors: Jane Squires Ph.D., Elizabeth Twombly M.S., Diane Bricker Ph.D., LaWanda Potter M.S.

Overview

This guide provides step-by-step guidance on administering and scoring the questionnaires, setting up a screening system, working with families effectively, and using ASQ®-3 across a range of settings.

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Product Details

• Product Details
• Table of Contents
• Reviews
• Contributors
• Training
• Free Resources

| STOCK NUMBER | ISBN | | 70045 | 978-1-59857-004-5 | | COPYRIGHT | PAGES | | 2009 | 256 | | AVAILABILITY | | | Available Stock | |

Key Features

The essential companion to the #1 developmental screener, the ASQ®-3 User's Guide gives professionals all the information and guidance they need to use ASQ-3. Professionals will get:

• thorough step-by-step instructions on planning a monitoring program, using and scoring the questionnaires, making referrals, and evaluating the monitoring program
• a complete technical report with psychometric data, including validity, sensitivity, specificity, and overreferral and underreferral rates
• guidance on using ASQ-3 in a wide variety of settings
• intervention activities families can use to help children make progress in key areas

With this clear, comprehensive guide to ASQ-3, professionals will be sure they're making the most of this highly reliable, accurate, and parent-friendly screener—so they can catch delays early and help improve child outcomes.

The ASQ-3 User's Guide is part of ASQ-3, the bestselling screener trusted for more than 20 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.

Reviews

• Michele Bishop, Family Futures, Grand Rapids, Michigan - August 2, 2012
  "Allows both parents and professionals to keep better overall track of children's development."
• Linda Schumacher, The Institute for Education and Professional Development, Worcester, Massachusetts - August 2, 2012
  "Defining the near cutoff area on the summary page is a great addition to ASQ-3! No more 'second-guessing' about a child's results!"
• Jo Ann Waggoner, Community Health Nurse Supervisor, Healthy Start, Maryland - August 2, 2012
  "The most important aspects of ASQ-3 [are] the new cutoff scores and encouraging monitoring of children to promote early intervention."
• Daniel Stowe, Inclusion Specialist, Redlands Christian Migrant Association - May 9, 2012
  "An excellent first screening tool for our population... It is a functional tool for our classroom staff, as it is easy to individualize for children by age and domain."
• Rachel J. Valleley and Brandy M. Roane, The 18th Mental Measurement Yearbook - May 11, 2011
  "The ASQ-3 system is an empirically sound screening and monitoring system for the early detection of developmental delays in infants and children."

Training

Virtual seminars for your organization from ASQ experts available at a variety of levels—introductory, comprehensive, and training of trainers. Combination ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2 trainings and trainings in Spanish are also available.

Attend one of our virtual Institutes to take your ASQ knowledge to the next level. Training of Trainers and Comprehensive Institutes are offered multiple times a year.

Downloadable Resources

• ASQ-3 technical report
• Sample ASQ-3 16 month questionnaire
• Sample ASQ-3 48 month questionnaire
• Screening success with parent-completed questionnaires: 10 practical tips

Learn more about the complete ASQ-3 system, and discover ASQ®:SE-2, the screener that reliably identifies young children at risk for social or emotional difficulties.