ASQ:SE-2 User Guide ─ Ages & Stages Questionnaires Social-emotional

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Coming in Fall 2015!

The essential guide to the NEW edition of the trusted social-emotional screener, the updatedASQ:SE-2? User's Guide gives your program all the information and guidance you need to use the screener accurately and effectively. Youa€?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 programa€?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 childrena€?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.

Dr. Bricker is the former director of the Early Intervention Program at the University of Oregon and a key developer of the ASQ and AEPSR 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.

Dr. 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. Squires has directed national outreach training activities related to developmental screening and the involvement of parents in the assessment and monitoring of their child's development. She currently directs research grants related to early childhood mental health and systems change related to early identification and treatment of newborn infants exposed prenatally to drugs and alcohol. In addition to her interests in screening and early identification, Dr. Squires directs the doctoral and master's level early intervention/special education personnel preparation programs and teachers courses in early intervention/special education at the University of Oregon.

Ms. Twombly has been involved in research, outreach, and training projects related to ASQ for 14 years. Most recently she has worked as a Senior Research Assistant in the development of ASQ:SE and as a co-author on theAges & Stages Learning Activities. Ms. Twombly trains early childhood professionals nationwide from fields such as early intervention, child care, and public health on the development of screening systems in home-visiting, center-based and medical settings. Ms. Twombly trains on the use of ASQ-3? and ASQ:SE as tools to screen and monitor general development and social-emotional development in children from the ages of birth to 6 years. She has a master's degree in early intervention from the University of Oregon.