Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: Social-Emotional (ASQ®:SE-2): User's Guide (English): A Parent-Completed Child Monitoring System for Social-Emotional Behaviors

The User's Guide allows the reader to understand that ASQ: SE-2 is not just a tool, but rather a tool that fits into a system and addresses a greater systemic need. It helps to empower county systems serving children at risk and with developmental and behavioral challenges [and provides] greater opportunity to identify the needs of these children, resulting in a stronger early intervention and early childhood education system. --Martina Ebesugawa

The essential guide to the NEW edition of the trusted social-emotional screener, the updated ASQ:SE-2 (TM)trade 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 program's 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's 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.