I have heard that research shows that parents are good reporters of their child’s development. Can you share more information about this research?
Research has indeed shown that parents—regardless of socioeconomic status, location, or well-being—give accurate information about their child’s development (Rydz et al., 2005; Squires et al., 1998). Parent report is most accurate if questions are straight-forward and ask about their child’s current, observable behav…
When adjusting age for prematurity, do you round up or down to obtain gestational age in weeks? For example, if a child is born at 33 weeks, 5 days, is the child born at 33 weeks gestation or 34 weeks gestation?
The developers recommend to round the number of weeks up for 4 or more days and to round down for 3 days or less. In your example, 33 weeks, 5 days would be rounded to 34 weeks gestation. A child born at 33 weeks, 3 days would be rounded down to 33 weeks gestation.
What is ASQ-3?
ASQ-3 is a low-cost, reliable, parent-completed tool for screening infants and young children for developmental delays during the crucial first 5½ years of life.
Can I post ASQ-3 or ASQ:SE-2 questionnaires on my website or my organization’s website?
No, posting ASQ-3 or ASQ:SE-2 questionnaires on any website, password protected or otherwise, is not permitted. However, we permit and encourage linking from your website to the sample questionnaires on our website. Our sample questionnaires may not be posted on any other website.
The age ranges for the 9 and 10 month old questionnaires overlap, but the cutoff scores on the two intervals are different. If we used the 10 month questionnaire for a child 9 1/2 months, his score falls into the monitoring zone, but if we use the 9 month questionnaire his scores falls in the normal range. Which questionnaire interval do you recommend using for a child between 9 months, 0 days and 9 months, 30 days?
The cutoff scores do differ between the 9 month and 10 month questionnaire intervals. The developers added the 9 month questionnaire with the third edition of ASQ in 2009, primarily to meet the needs of pediatricians following the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendations to screen at 9, 18, and 30 months. Rese…
Are there ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2 questionnaires for a child over 5 years of age?
The ASQ-3 screens children up to 66 months of age. The ASQ:SE-2 screens children up to 72 months of age.
What developmental areas does ASQ-3 address?
ASQ-3 addresses five developmental areas: communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving, and personal-social.
How do you calculate the number of weeks premature for a child when using ASQ? Do you subtract from 38 or 40 weeks gestation?
When conducting research and data analyses for ASQ-3, the developers used 39 weeks as a full-term pregnancy. To calculate the number of weeks premature, you subtract the gestational weeks at birth (e.g., 35 weeks) from 39 weeks. However, if your program uses 40 weeks (or 38 weeks) as a full term pregnancy, you can co…
Several ASQ-3 intervals include the an item related to gender and whether the child identifies their gender correctly. Some parents have concerns about this item, and some say that they find it to be insensitive to the transgender community. As a professional, how should we handle this issue?
This is an important issue. We agree that the questions related to gender are potentially hurtful to families and children, and we apologize. In the past, gender was considered a hallmark of development but now there exists a much more nuanced and sophisticated view of all that is involved with gender. We consider th…
Does ASQ-3 screen a child's social and emotional skills?
Personal-Social is one of the five areas on ASQ-3 questionnaires. Items in the Personal-Social Area look at a child's self-help skills and their interactions with others. Ages & Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional, Second Edition, (ASQ:SE-2) provides a more in-depth screening of children's social-emotional skills…
