We use the ASQ-3 as part of our developmental screening program and are piloting a Project LAUNCH initiative with the ASQ:SE-2 to improve our focus on social-emotional needs of infants and toddlers. Have you conducted research on or do you recommended a 2-step process where only children with a delay in the Personal-Social area of the ASQ-3 receive an ASQ:SE-2 rather than screening with both questionnaires for every child?
We have not collected data on this two-step process, but we do recommend it for programs that aren’t able to screen every child with both the ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2. This practices does make sense in terms of what we know about autism and what our research has found in terms of using ASQ-3 with children later identified …
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…
