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Autism-Risk Screening in the First 3 Years of Life in Taiwan Birth Cohort Pilot Study
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Lung, For-Wey; Chiang, Tung-Liang; Lin, Shio-Jean; Shu, Bih-Ching – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
To increase public awareness and sensitivity, a two-stage screening with a community-based approach is proposed, with the use of the broadband Taiwan Birth Cohort Study (TBCS) developmental instrument in the first stage and the narrowband Modified Checklist of Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT) in the second stage. Thus, the purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Autism, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, At Risk Persons
Developmental Assessment of Preterm Infants at 2 Years: Validity of Parent Reports
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Johnson, Samantha; Wolke, Dieter; Marlow, Neil – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2008
Parental questionnaires are inexpensive alternatives to standardized testing for outcome measurement. The Parent Report of Children's Abilities has previously been revised (PARCA-R) and validated for use with very-preterm infants at 2 years of age. This study revalidated the PARCA-R for assessing cognition in a larger and more inclusive sample of…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Pregnancy, Premature Infants, Cognitive Development
Comparison of the Bender-Gestalt and Revised Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration.
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Armstrong, Barbara B.; Knopf, Karen F. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Using children with learning disabilities and children enrolled in regular classrooms, test scores on the Bender-Gestalt and the Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration indicated high and significant correlations for the learning-disabled group and low but significant correlations for regular students. A nine-month mean difference in scores…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Disability Identification, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Developmental Screening in Early Childhood: A Guide (5th Edition)
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Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Meisels, Samuel – National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2005
This edition covers the basics of screening used to identify which children may have learning problems or disabilities. It offers advice for selecting an appropriate screening instrument and for setting up a screening program. The book contains reviews of current developmental screens, plus an entirely new annotated bibliography. For the first…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Screening Tests, Disabilities, Developmental Stages
Help or Hindrance? Staff Perspectives on Developmental Assessment in Multicultural Early Childhood Settings.
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Schuman, Andrea – Mental Retardation, 2002
Thirty-five staff members' views on developmental assessment in a multicultural early childhood setting are described and used to initiate a critique of current practice in assessment of young children. Staff expressed a range of opinions from endorsement to frank rejection of the utility, validity, and ethics of developmental assessment.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Child Development, Cultural Differences, Developmental Stages
Specification of Growth Model and Inter-individual Differences for Students with Severe Reading Difficulties: A Case of CBM.
Kim, Dong-il – 1998
This paper reports on the findings of a longitudinal study that investigated the trends in reading growth for 49 elementary students with severe reading difficulties. The students received special education services in a large Midwestern city in which curriculum-based measurement (CBM) procedures were implemented fully. The study began when the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Based Assessment, Developmental Stages, Disability Identification