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Positive preschool behavior: Tools to improve children’s social-emotional skills

Any preschool teacher can tell you that behavior is critical to a positive learning and play environment.

Fostering young children's social-emotional development not only smooths out the preschool day for everyone, but also helps children do better later in school and life.

Here are 4 tools you can use to make sure your program is implementing best practices, supporting children's social skills, and addressing challenging behaviors. Read More

Developmental Screening Quiz

Why is developmental screening so important?

Find out in this quiz, adapted from Developmental Screening in Your Community: An Integrated Approach for Connecting Children with Services by Diane Bricker, Ph.D., Marisa Macy, Ph.D., Jane Squires, Ph.D., & Kevin Marks, M.D., FAAP.

This new guide by the leading developers of ASQ and their colleagues describes how communities can create a low-cost, reliable system for early detection of developmental issues in young children. Read More

AEPS Scoring Conversion Table: Three to Six Years (Cognitive Area)

AEPS Scoring Conversion Tables have been designed to provide a bridge between editions for AEPS users. Programs that assessed and/or evaluated children with the first edition and that subsequently have or would like to assess and/or evaluate the same children with the second edition can use these tables to make a simple and valid comparison of the children’s performances across editions. Read More

Crosswalk for the Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System (AEPS) for Infants and Children, SECOND EDITION

Consult this crosswalk to learn how Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System (AEPS) for Infants and Children, Second Edition (Level I and Level II) can be used in alignment with OSEP Child Outcomes. Read More

AEPSI Child Assessments: Creating a New Child Observation Data Recording Form

This section of the AEPSi Provider Guide explains how to use the Child Assessments page of the AEPS online system. Read More

Determining and corroborating eligibility decisions using AEPS

This ebooklet outlines how to use AEPS cutoff scores to determine eligibility. The development of the cutoff scores, as well as data analyses, are also discussed.   Read More

Putting your trust in parents

If you’ve ever felt frustrated by how to include parents in the screening process with ASQ, you’re not alone. Discover the case for having parents complete questionnaires—and learn what to do when they can’t. Read More

Tips & Tools for ASQ Users

Use this Tips & Tools packet to help with your everyday implementation of ASQ. All content is free and includes resources to bookmark, webinars to watch, and samples to download. Read More

Planning your screening program

Many organizations are eager to start screening as soon as possible and may not spend enough time planning out the particulars of their ASQ-3 program. For future success, be sure to start with these 9 steps. Read More

ASQ Success Story: Help Me Grow – Southeast Michigan

Learn why Help Me Grow Southeast Michigan chose ASQ Online to meet their screening and data management needs—and how the system helped them meet their goals. Read More