Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: Social-Emotional (ASQ®:SE-2): User's Guide (English)

The essential guide to the NEW edition of the trusted social-emotional screener, the updated ASQ:SE-2™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.

• List of Tables and Figures
• About the Authors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Photocopying Release
• Frequently Asked Questions
• I Overview of ASQ
• 1 Introduction to ASQ:SE-2
• 2 The Need for ASQ:SE-2
• 3 The ASQ:SE-2 System
• II Implementation of ASQ:SE-2
• 4 Phase I: Planning the Screening/Monitoring Program Using ASQ:SE-2
• 5 Phase II: Preparing, Organizing, and Managing the Screening Program
• 6 Phase III: Administering and Scoring ASQ:SE-2 and Following Up
• 7 Phase IV: Evaluating the Screening and Monitoring Program
• III ASQ:SE-2 in Practice
• 8 ASQ:SE-2 Completion Methods
• 9 ASQ:SE-2 Settings
• 10 ASQ:SE-2 Case Examples
• References
• Appendixes
• A Suggested Readings
• B Glossary
• C ASQ:SE-2 Technical Report
• D Letters and Forms
• Parent Letters/Forms (in English)
• Parent Letters/Forms (in Spanish)
• Physician/Professional Letters (in English)
• Screening/Monitoring Program Forms (in English)
• E Activities and Behavior List
• F Social-Emotional Resources

Dr Jane Squires has served as principal investigator on research studies at the University of Oregon on the ASQ system. She is a professor in special education, focusing on early intervention and early childhood special education. She directs the Early Intervention Program and is associate director of the University of Oregon Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.

Dr Diane Bricker is the former director of the Early Intervention Program at the University of Oregon and a key developer of the ASQ and AEPS® systems. She has focused her professional career on the development and study of assessment systems and intervention approaches for young children with disabilities and those at risk for developing disabilities.

Dr. Bricker has been instrumental in the development of graduate-level personnel preparation programs that have produced professionals who are delivering quality services to thousands of young children and their families. She has published extensively in the field of early intervention.