The ASQ-SE User's Guide for the Ages & Stages Questionnaires-Social Emotional : A Parent-Completed, Child-Monitoring System for Social-Emotional Behaviors

Clear and comprehensive, this guide walks professionals step-by-step through the process of setting up and running the Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: Social-Emotional (ASQ:SE): A Parent-Completed, Child-Monitoring System for Social-Emotional Behaviors. It includes:

• instructions for administering and scoring the questionnaires
• tips on interpreting the questionnaires with sensitivity to children's environmental, cultural, and developmental differences
• detailed technical data on how the system was developed and tested
• creative activities and lists of social-emotional behaviors professionals can share with parents for use with each age group

The appendixes provide readers with a quick guide to social-emotional development, photocopiable forms and sample letters to parents, Spanish translations of selected letters and forms, and a technical report on the ASQ:SE. Research on the accuracy of the ASQ:SE has been investigated with more than 3,000 diverse children across the age intervals and their families, with excellent results for both reliability and validity.

The practical, thorough information in this guide, supplemented by illustrative case studies, help practitioners tailor the ASQ:SE to meet the needs of the individual children and families they serve.

This User's Guide is part of ASQ:SE, the bestselling screener trusted for more than 15 years to pinpoint social-emotional issues as early as possible during the crucial first 5 years of life. ASQ:SE questionnaires are reliable and valid, parent-completed, cost effective, culturally sensitive, and easy to administer and score. The 8 age-appropriate questionnaires effectively screen seven key social-emotional areas: self-regulation, compliance, communication, adaptive behaviors, autonomy, affect, and interaction with people.

Learn more about the complete ASQ:SE system, and discover ASQ-3™, the best way to screen infants and young children for developmental delays during the crucial first 5 years of life.

Dr. Squires is Professor of Special Education, focusing on the field of early intervention/early childhood special education. She oversees research and outreach projects in the areas of developmental screening, implementation of screening systems, early identification of developmental delays, and the involvement of parents in monitoring their young children’s development.

She is lead author of the Ages & Stages Questionnaires®, Third Edition (ASQ®-3; with D. Bricker; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2009), Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: Social-Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ®:SE-2; with D. Bricker and E. Twombly; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2015), and the Social-Emotional Assessment/Evaluation Measure (SEAM™), Research Edition (with D. Bricker, M. Waddell, K. Funk, J. Clifford, & R. Hoselton; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2014).

She has authored or coauthored more than 90 books, chapters, assessments, videotapes, and articles on developmental screening and early childhood disabilities. In 2013, she coauthored the book Developmental Screening in Your Community: An Integrated Approach for Connecting Children with Services (Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2013). Dr. Squires currently teaches doctoral-level courses in early intervention/special education and conducts research on comprehensive early identification and referral systems for preschool children.

Dr. Bricker served as Director of the Early Intervention Program at the Center on Human Development, University of Oregon, from 1978 to 2004. She was a professor of special education, focusing on the fields of early intervention and social-communication.

Her professional interests have addressed three major areas: early intervention service delivery approaches, curricula-based assessment and evaluation, and developmental-behavioral screening. Dr. Bricker's work in early intervention approaches has been summarized in two volumes: An Activity-Based Approach to Early Intervention, Fourth Edition (with J. Johnson & N. Rahn; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2015) and An Activity-Based Approach to Developing Young Children’s Social Emotional Competence (with J. Squires; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2007). Her work in curricula-based assessment/evaluation has focused on the development of the Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System for Infants and Children, Second Edition (AEPS®; with B. Capt, K. Pretti- Frontczak, J. Johnson, K. Slentz, E. Straka, & M Waddell; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2004). This measure and curricula provides intervention personnel with a system for the comprehensive assessment of young children with results that link directly to curricular content and subsequent evaluation of child progress.

Dr. Bricker has been a primary author of the Ages & Stages Questionnaires® (ASQ®; with J. Squires; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1995, 1999, 2009) and directed research activities on the ASQ system starting in 1980. Developmental Screening in Your Community: An Integrated Approach for Connecting Children with Services (Bricker, Macy, Squires, & Marks; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2013) offers a comprehensive system for creating and operating community-wide developmental-behavioral screening programs for young children.

Dr. Bricker's distinctions include the Division of Early Childhood, Council for Exceptional Children Service to the Field Award, December 1992, and the Peabody College Distinguished Alumna Award, May 1995.

For more than 20 years, Ms. Twombly has been involved in Ages & Stages Questionnaires® (ASQ®) research projects, including renorming for the Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: Social Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ®:SE-2;), and the Ages & Stages Questionnaires®, Third Edition (ASQ®-3; Squires & Bricker; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2009). She has conducted trainings on ASQ and ASQ:SE nationally and internationally and has provided technical assistance to states on the development of early identification and referral systems for young children. Ms. Twombly is a contributing author of ASQ-3 and an author of ASQ:SE-2, ASQ-3 Learning Activities, and ASQ:SE-2 Learning Activities & More.

Ms.Twombly's areas of interest and research include systems of care for substance-exposed newborns, infant mental health, family-guided early intervention, and the use of standardized screening tools in diverse health, educational and social services settings. She currently is working on a team to develop a universal system of screening and referral for families with young children in the state of Oregon.