CSBS DP Infant-Toddler Checklist

Child’s Information

• Child’s name:
• Date of birth:
• Date filled out:
• Was birth premature? If yes, how many weeks premature?
• Filled out by:
• Relationship to child:

Instructions for Caregivers

This Checklist is designed to identify different aspects of development in infants and toddlers. Many behaviors that develop before children talk may indicate whether or not a child will have difficulty learning to talk. This Checklist should be completed by a caregiver when the child is between 6 and 24 months of age to determine whether a referral for an evaluation is needed. The caregiver may be either a parent or another person who nurtures the child daily. Please check all the choices that best describe your child’s behavior. If you are not sure, please choose the closest response based on your experience. Children at your child’s age are not necessarily expected to use all the behaviors listed.

Emotion and Eye Gaze

1. Do you know when your child is happy and when your child is upset?

   • Not Yet
   • Sometimes
   • Often

2. When your child plays with toys, does he/she look at you to see if you are watching?

   • Not Yet
   • Sometimes
   • Often

3. Does your child smile or laugh while looking at you?

   • Not Yet
   • Sometimes
   • Often

4. When you look at and point to a toy across the room, does your child look at it?

   • Not Yet
   • Sometimes
   • Often

Communication

5. Does your child let you know that he/she needs help or wants an object out of reach?

   • Not Yet
   • Sometimes
   • Often

6. When you are not paying attention to your child, does he/she try to get your attention?

   • Not Yet
   • Sometimes
   • Often

7. Does your child do things just to get you to laugh?

   • Not Yet
   • Sometimes
   • Often

8. Does your child try to get you to notice interesting objects—just to get you to look at the objects, not to get you to do anything with them?

   • Not Yet
   • Sometimes
   • Often

Gestures

9. Does your child pick up objects and give them to you?

   • Not Yet
   • Sometimes
   • Often

10. Does your child show objects to you without giving you the object?

• Not Yet
• Sometimes
• Often

11. Does your child wave to greet people?

• Not Yet
• Sometimes
• Often

12. Does your child point to objects?

• Not Yet
• Sometimes
• Often

13. Does your child nod his/her head to indicate yes?

• Not Yet
• Sometimes
• Often

Sounds

14. Does your child use sounds or words to get attention or help?

• Not Yet
• Sometimes
• Often

15. Does your child string sounds together, such as uh oh, mama, gaga, bye bye, bada?

• Not Yet
• Sometimes
• Often

16. About how many of the following consonant sounds does your child use:

• ma, na, ba, da, ga, wa, la, ya, sa, sha?
• None
• 1–2
• 3–4
• 5–8
• over 8

Words

17. About how many different words does your child use meaningfully that you recognize (such as baba for bottle; gaggie for doggie)?

• None
• 1–3
• 4–10
• 11–30
• over 30

18. Does your child put two words together (for example, more cookie, bye bye Daddy)?

• Not Yet
• Sometimes
• Often

Understanding

19. When you call your child’s name, does he/she respond by looking?

• Not Yet
• Sometimes
• Often

20. About how many of the following objects does your child use appropriately:

• cup, bottle, bowl, spoon, comb or brush, toothbrush, washcloth, ball, toy vehicle, toy telephone?
• None
• 1–2
• 3–4
• 5–8
• over 8

21. About how many blocks (or rings) does your child stack?

• None
• 2 blocks
• 3–4 blocks
• 5 or more

22. Does your child pretend to play with toys (for example, feed a stuffed animal, put a doll to sleep, put an animal figure in a vehicle)?

• Not Yet
• Sometimes
• Often

Results Table

a The standard scores are based on a mean of 10 and SD of 3 for the Composite Scores and a mean of 100 and SD of 15 for the Total Score. b Criterion levels for concern are set at more than 1.25 SD below the mean as follows: Standard Scores at or below 6 for the Composite Scores and 81 for the Total Score; Percentiles at or below 10. c After filling in Standard Score and Percentile Rank, if below criterion level, write Yes in the Concern box. If at or above criterion level, leave blank. A child should be referred for an evaluation if the Social Composite, Symbolic Composite, or the Total Score is below criterion level. A child should be monitored carefully if the Speech Composite is below criterion level.

Recommendations

Based on the information provided on the Infant-Toddler Checklist and the results shown above, the following recommendation is made at this time (check one):

• This child currently communicates as expected for his or her age. Because new skills are emerging each month, it is important to monitor this child’s development by asking the child’s caregiver to revisit the checklist periodically.

Cut-off Scores for the CSBS DP Infant-Toddler Checklist