ASQ Training Institutes are offered each year that allow attendees to become trainers for their organization. These three-day seminars are designed for intermediate to advanced ASQ users and cover administration, scoring, interpreting results, and sharing results with families. Attendees receive materials needed to tra...
The ASQ-3 is a developmental screener designed to indicate when children may have delays. The tool is not in-depth enough to determine whether children have a slight delay or significant delays in the Communication area (or any developmental area). If a child has concerns in the Communication area (i.e., scoring in the...
ASQ-3 is versatile, flexible, culturally sensitive, and designed to be administered at home. This means children can be tested in their usual environment and at the parents' convenience. Activities allow children to play, move about, and practice daily living skills. They often involve home items like cereal boxes and ...
Ages & Stages Questionnaires (ASQ) is a flexible system that allows programs to choose the frequency of screening based on what works best with the program's goals and capabilities. The developers do recommend that programs screen on a regular basis, rather than just once, to detect delays that may develop as children ...
To start implementing ASQ-3 in your program, you should purchase a Starter Kit, available in English or Spanish. The Starter Kit contains a User's Guide, the Questionnaires (paper masters and CD-ROM with printable PDFs), and a Quick Start Guide. Additional helpful products include ASQ-3 Scoring & Referral training DVD,...
The ASQ keycode is printed on a sticker that is affixed to the inside of your box of ASQ-3 or ASQ:SE-2 questionnaires or inside the front cover of your Learning Activities book. See a [sample sticker][1]. Keycode stickers are different colors on different products: ASQ-3 English: light blue ASQ-3 Spanish: ligh...
When conducting research for ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2, the authors used 39 weeks of gestation as a full-term pregnancy. However, some programs use 38 weeks or 40 weeks of gestation as a full-term pregnancy, which is also fine. When using ASQ-3 or ASQ:SE-2, you adjust for prematurity if a child is born 3 or more weeks prematu...
Questions include specific instructions about demonstrating, or not demonstrating, tasks if either of those actions would significantly negatively affect the responses. If there are no specific instructions for a question, then demonstrating beforehand should not affect responses and parents can do so if they choose. ...
Most parents see their children interact with peers--during playdates, at birthday parties, at social events, in the neighborhood, in the community, on sports teams, and so forth. For children who have been in a preschool or child care environment, parents typically have seen and heard about their children's social int...
The breakdown of ASQ-3 questionnaire results (typical, monitoring, referral) depends greatly upon the population of children served by your program. In the national normative sample used to examine the psychometric properies of ASQ-3, an average of 15.5% of children fell below the cutoff score in at least one domain. H...