Table 4.
General developmental assessment tools
| Parental questionnaires (For purchase except when specified) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Screening tool | Age range | Completion time | Test performance | Test sample |
Comments |
| Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ-3) (40) | 1 month to 5.5 years | 10–15 minutes | Se: 70–90% (40) Sp: 76–91% |
Children from diverse ethnic, socio-economic backgrounds | Gross and fine motor skills, language functions, social-emotional development, adaptive skills |
| Child Development Inventory (CDI) (41) | 15 month to 6 years | 30–40 minutes | Se: 80–100% (41) Sp: 94–96% |
Primarily White, working class community | 300 items: 8 areas of functioning, including cognition and language |
| Brief Early Childhood Screening Assessment (ECSA) (42) | 18–60 months | 1–5 minutes | Se: 89% (42) Sp: 85% |
Children from primary care | 22 items: assesses emotional and behavioural development (No cost) |
| Nipissing District Developmental Screen (43) (new name ‘Looksee Checklist’) | 1 month to 6 years | 5 minutes | Se: 29–68% (43) Sp: 58–88% |
High-risk clinic referral group | Commonly used in Ontario. Examines 13 developmental stages (No cost in Ontario) |
| Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) (44) | Birth to 8 years | 2–10 minutes | Se: 91–97% (44) Sp: 73–86% |
Children from diverse ethnic, socio-economic backgrounds | Expressive, receptive language, and articulation; gross motor, self-help, social-emotional, behavioural, and global-cognitive |
Se Sensitivity; Sp Specificity