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Screening and Assessment



CSBS DP™ At A Glance

Age range covered:
6–24 months (functional communication age); 6 months to 6 years (chronological age)

Areas screened:
Communicative behavior and symbolic development

Components:
Infant-Toddler Checklist (5–10 minutes), Caregiver Questionnaire (15–25 minutes), Behavior Sample (30 minutes), Manual, Infant-Toddler Checklist and Easy-Score Software, Toy Kit, Caregiver Perception Rating Form, two instructional videos

Who completes it:
Caregivers and professionals trained to assess developmentally young children (e.g., speech-language pathologists, early interventionists, or psychologists); professionals score

Approximate time:
1 hour

Validity and reliability:
Norms include standard scores and percentiles based on 2,188 children for the Infant-Toddler Checklist, 790 children for the Caregiver Questionnaire, and 337 children for the Behavior Sample. Reliability and validity are high.

Manual includes:
Instructions for administering and scoring the profile, technical background and information about standardization and norming, and guidelines for interpreting a child's CSBS DP for screening and evaluation
Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Developmental Profile (CSBS DP)™, First Normed Edition
Full Description | Ordering Info
CSBS DP is an easy-to-use, norm-referenced screening and evaluation tool that addresses young children's communicative behavior and symbolic development.

Important Features
  • Derived from the popular, esteemed CSBS, CSBS DP is shorter, faster, and lets you begin identification earlier
  • Can be used to screening to identify children at risk for developmental delay or disability and evaluation to determine if a child is delayed in social communication, expressive speech/language, and symbolic functioning
  • Can be used as starting point for IFSP planning and also as an outcome measure to help determine the efficacy of intervention

Free PDF Downloads

  • Caregiver questionnaire (4 pages / 1.5MB)
    A glance at the CSBS DP Caregiver Questionnaire.
    Please note that some of the text is blurred intentionally.

Professional Development

  • Workshops on CSBS DP are not currently available. Please do call 410-337-9580 to inquire about future availability.



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