"Cost-effective, reliable way to screen young children for social-emotional issues in the first 6 years of life"--
"Watch a webcast on the new edition!Coming in Fall 2015! The essential guide to the NEW edition of the trusted social-emotional screener, the updated ASQ:SE-2™ User's Guide gives your program all the information and guidance you need to use the screener accurately and effectively. You'll get thorough, step-by-step instructions on screening with ASQ:SE-2, including planning and managing your screening program, administering and scoring the questionnaires, and evaluating your programs effectiveness a complete technical report with psychometric data, including validity, sensitivity, and specificity guidance on using ASQ:SE-2 in a wide variety of settings sample letters and forms that increase family engagement, including a welcome letter, parent feedback survey, and parent conference sheet handouts and activities families can use to help promote children social-emotional development between screenings, plus a list of resources to support professionals With this clear, comprehensive guide, professionals will be sure they're making the most of this highly reliable, accurate, and parent-friendly screener--so they can catch social-emotional issues early and help improve child outcomes.The ASQ:SE-2 User's Guide is part of the ASQ:SE-2 screening system. ASQ:SE-2 is the NEW edition of the bestselling screener trusted to pinpoint social-emotional issues as early as possible during the crucial first 6 years of life. The 9 age-appropriate ASQ:SE-2 questionnaires effectively screen 7 key developmental areas: self-regulation, compliance, adaptive functioning, autonomy, affect, social-communication, and interaction with people. The second edition of ASQ:SE-2 has been revised and updated with invaluable new features, including a NEW 2 month questionnaire, an expanded age range, updated cutoff scores, new behavior and communication items, and more updates to help you better support families and promote social-emotional development. Learn more about ASQ:SE-2 and its companion developmental screener, ASQ-3™--the valid, reliable, and trusted tool for screening children during the crucial first 5 years of life. "--
This user's guide explains how to plan, organize, and manage the ASQ:SE-2 (Ages & Stages Questionnaire: Social-Emotional, Second Edition) screening system to conduct social-emotional screening of infants, toddlers, and children up to six years old in different settings. It describes the need for screening social-emotional competency, previous approaches to screening and problems with them, and the origins and development of the ASQ:SE-2 system; its components and phases; how to plan, use, and evaluate the system; administration, scoring, and follow-up; completion methods; settings; and examples for implementation. It outlines the assessment items, provides strategies for using the system, and explains how to deal with factors that may affect results. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)