# ASQ®-3 User's Guide

**Authors:** [Jane Squires Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=2103&Name=Jane+Squires+Ph.D.), [Elizabeth Twombly M.S.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=3856&Name=Elizabeth+Twombly+M.S.), [Diane Bricker Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=2023&Name=Diane+Bricker+Ph.D.), [LaWanda Potter M.S.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=3849&Name=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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### 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](https://agesandstages.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ASQ-3-Technical-Appendix_web_2025.pdf)
- [Sample ASQ-3 16 month questionnaire](https://agesandstages.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/asq-3-16-month-sample.pdf)
- [Sample ASQ-3 48 month questionnaire](https://agesandstages.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/asq-3-48-month-sample.pdf)
- [Screening success with parent-completed questionnaires: 10 practical tips](http://archive.brookespublishing.com/articles/ec-article-0711.htm)

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