Screening and Assessment Tools and Resources

Tools and Instruments

COMING SOON! Pediatric Test of Brain Injury™ (PTBI™)
By Gillian Hotz, Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Nickola Wolf Nelson, & Elena Plante

COMING SOON! SCERTS® Easy-Score™ CD-ROM
By Barry M. Prizant, Amy M. Wetherby, Emily Rubin, & Amy C. Laurent

NEW! Using IGDIs
Monitoring Progress and Improving Intervention for Infants and Young Children
By Judith Carta, Charles Greenwood, Dale Walker, & Jay Buzhardt

Ages & Stages Questionnaires®, Third Edition (ASQ-3)
A Parent-Completed, Child-Monitoring System
By Jane Squires & Diane Bricker

• Professional development available

ASQ-3 Scoring and Referral [DVD]
By Elizabeth Twombly & Jane Squires
Produced by Arden Munkres

ASQ:SE in Practice [DVD]
By Jane Squires & Elizabeth Twombly
Produced by Arden Munkres

The Ages & Stages Questionnaires on a Home Visit [DVD]
By Jane Farrell, LaWanda Potter, & Arden Munkres

Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: Social-Emotional (ASQ:SE)
A Parent-Completed, Child-Monitoring System for Social-Emotional Behaviors
By Jane Squires, Diane Bricker, & Elizabeth Twombly, with assistance from Suzanne Yockelson, Maura Schoen Davis, & Younghee Kim

• Professional development available

The Capute Scales
Cognitive Adaptive Test and Clinical Linguistic and Auditory Milestone Scale (CAT/CLAMS)
By Pasquale J. Accardo & Arnold J. Capute, with Paul F. Visintainer, Mary Leppert, Thomas R. Montgomery, Brian T. Rogers, Michael E. Msall, Robert Voigt, & Barbara Y. Whitman

Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS)
By Robert Pianta, Karen M. La Paro, & Bridget K. Hamre

Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales™ (CSBS)
By Amy Miller Wetherby & Barry Prizant

Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Developmental Profile™ (CSBS DP)
By Amy Miller Wetherby & Barry Prizant

CSBS DP™ Infant-Toddler Checklist and Easy-Score Software
By Amy Miller Wetherby & Barry Prizant

Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation (ELLCO)
By Miriam W. Smith, Joanne P. Brady, & Louisa Anastasopoulos (ELLCO Pre-K)

By Miriam W. Smith, Joanne P. Brady, & Nancy Clark-Chiarelli (ELLCO K–3)

• Professional development available

Home & Community Social Behavior Scales (HCSBS)
By Kenneth Merrell

Infant-Toddler and Family Instrument (ITFI) & Manual
By Nancy H. Apfel & Sally Provence

• Professional development available

Let's Read Together
Improving Literacy Outcomes with the Adult/Child Interactive Reading Inventory (ACIRI)
By Andrea DeBruin-Parecki

Life Skills Progression™ (LSP)
An Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument for Use with Families at Risk
By Linda Wollesen & Karen Peifer

• Professional development available

MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs)
By Larry Fenson, Philip S. Dale, J. Steven Reznick, Donna Thal, Elizabeth Bates, Jeffrey P. Hartung, Steve Pethick, & Judy S. Reilly

• Available in English and Spanish

NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS™)
By Barry M. Lester & Edward Z. Tronick

SALT 2010 Bilingual S/E Version
A Tool for Assessing the Language Production of Bilingual (Spanish/English) Children
By Jon F. Miller & Aquiles Iglesias

School Social Behavior Scales
By Kenneth Merrell

Temperament and Atypical Behavior Scale (TABS)
Early Childhood Indicators of Developmental Dysfunction
By Stephen J. Bagnato, John T. Neisworth, John J. Salvia, & Frances M. Hunt

• Professional development available

Understanding Newborn Behavior and Early Relationships
The Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) System Handbook
By J. Kevin Nugent, Constance H. Keefer, Susan Minear, Lise Johnson, & Yvette Blanchard

The Visit
Observation, Reflection, Synthesis for Training and Relationship Building
By Annette Axtmann & Annegret Dettwiler

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Assessment/Intervention Curricula

Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment, Second Edition (TPBA2) & Transdisciplinary Play-Based Intervention, Second Edition (TPBI2)
By Toni W. Linder, with invited contributors

• Professional development available

Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System (AEPS™) for Infants and Children, Second Edition
Series edited by Diane Bricker

• Professional development available

The Carolina Curriculum (CCITSN and CCPSN)
By Nancy M. Johnson-Martin, Susan M. Attermeier, & Bonnie J. Hacker

• Professional development available

The SCERTS^TM Model
A Comprehensive Educational Approach for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
By Barry M. Prizant, Amy M. Wetherby, Emily Rubin, Amy C. Laurent, & Patrick J. Rydell

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Assessment Resources

COMING SOON! Alternate Assessment for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
An Educator's Guide
By Harold L. Kleinert & Jacqui Farmer Kearns, with invited contributors

COMING SOON! Assessing Young Children in Inclusive Settings
The Blended Practices Approach
By Jennifer Grisham-Brown & Kristie Pretti-Frontczak, with invited contributors

COMING SOON! LINKing Authentic Assessment and Early Childhood Intervention
Best Measures for Best Practices, Second Edition
By Stephen J. Bagnato, John T. Neisworth, & Kristie Pretti-Frontczak

COMING SOON! Quality Measurement in Early Childhood Education
Edited by Martha Zaslow, Ivelisse Martinez-Beck, Kathryn Tout, & Tamara Halle

COMING SOON! Teaching and Assessing Low-Achieving Students with Disabilities
A Guide to Alternate Assessments Based on Modified Achievement Standards
Edited by Marianne Perie

NEW! Observing Kassandra [DVD]
A Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment of a Child with Severe Disabilities
Produced and written by Toni W. Linder, directed and edited by Matt Walker

Alternative Approaches to Assessing Young Children
By Angela Losardo & Angela Notari-Syverson

• Professional development available

Alternate Assessments Based on Alternate Achievement Standards
Policy, Practice, and Potential
Edited by William D. Schafer & Robert W. Lissitz

Assessment of Parenting Competency in Mothers with Mental Illness
By Teresa Ostler

Reversing the Odds
Improving Outcomes for Babies in the Child Welfare System
By Sheryl Dicker

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