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Minnesota Children With Special Health Needs

Developmental and Social-Emotional Screening of Young Children in Minnesota

Instruments At A Glance for Clinics and Providers:
Information for Minnesota Clinics and Providers

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The use of standardized screening instruments to perform developmental and social-emotional screening in young children may pose challenges to some practices because of limited knowledge of reliable screening instruments and limited time during office visits to screen patients. Parent report screening instruments eliminate these barriers by providing a quick and standardized way to screen patients.

The developmental and social-emotional screening instruments listed below are those most commonly used by health care providers. This list is a subset of all standardized developmental and social-emotional screening instruments recommended by the Minnesota Interagency Developmental Screening Task Force (Task Force). For an overview of standardized screening instruments and a complete list of recommended observational, parent report, and social-emotional screening instruments recommended for use by the Task Force and approved for use by the Minnesota Department of Education for the Early Childhood Screening program*, see All Instruments at a Glance. The Task Force web site can be found at: http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fh/mch/devscrn/.

Recommended Standardized Screening Instruments Frequently Used
by Minnesota Clinics and Providers
January 29, 2007

	ASQ Ages and Stages Questionnaire	PEDS Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status	IDI Infant Development Inventory	CDR-PQ Childhood Development Review Parent Questionnaire
Table 1: Developmental Screening Instruments
Type	Parent Report	Parent Report	Parent Report	Parent Report
Age	Birth – 5 yrs.	Birth – 8 yrs.	Birth – 18 mos.	18 mos. – 5 yrs.
Staff Required	Para-prof. scorer	Para-prof. scorer	Para-prof. scorer	Para-prof. scorer
Staff Time	1-5 min.	2-5 min.	5 min.	5 min.
Sensitivity	72%	75%	85%	68%
Specificity	86%	74%	77%	88%
Language	English, Spanish, French, Korean	English, Spanish, Vietnamese	English, Spanish	English, Spanish
Cost	The cost of each screening instrument varies. Contact the publisher for more information.

	ASQ-SE Ages and Stages Questionnaire – Social Emotional	PSC Pediatric Symptom Checklist
Table 2: Social-Emotional Screening Instruments
Type	Parent Report	Parent Report
Age	6 – 60 mos.	4 – 16 yrs.
Staff Required	Para-prof. scorer	Para-prof. scorer
Staff Time	1-5 min.	unknown
Sensitivity	71 – 85%	88 – 92%
Specificity	90 – 98%	68 – 99%
Language	English, Spanish	English, Spanish, Chinese
Cost	The cost of each screening instrument varies. Contact the publisher for more information.

*The Early Childhood Screening Program (administered through the Minnesota Department of Education) requires use of both a parent report and an observational screening instrument to meet the developmental screening component (Minnesota Rule 3530.3400, Subp. 3).

Related Links
(Last accessed on January 29, 2007)

Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) Program
http://nashp.org/

Bright Futures, Social and Emotional Development Tools
http://www.brightfutures.org/

The Commonwealth Fund
http://www.cmwf.org

Information on Implementation
http://www.cmwf.org/tools/tools_show.htm?doc_id=372065

Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Online
http://www.dbpeds.org

Minnesota American Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.mnaap.org/about.html

Minnesota Chapter National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (MN NAPNAP)
http://www.mnnapnap.org/

The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) endorses the recommendations made by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH).

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Developmental and Social-Emotional Screening of Young Children in Minnesota

Instruments At A Glance for Clinics and Providers: Information for Minnesota Clinics and Providers

Instruments At A Glance for Clinics and Providers:
Information for Minnesota Clinics and Providers