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@: ASQ:SE ??
We got a flyer at daycare that they are having this group come in to screen the kids using ASQ: SE - Ages and Stages Questionnaire: Social Emotional.
Do you know anything about it? Is it insightful? Any idea what they do with the kids during the assessment?
Re: @: ASQ:SE ??
I used to give it and the regular ASQ
It is strange that they are having a group come do it. It is not an assessment that requires formal training (unless this is like a ECE college group who wants practice). You can even order the thing online - from the publisher.
It is a questionnaire about what you have observed the child doing (also why I wonder about a group coming it, it helps if you know the kids). It goes every month up to a certain age and then starts going every year, so a different form for 1 mo olds, 2 mo olds, 24 mo olds.
It also has a parent questionnaire, that I believe is the same questions. Then you meet with the teacher after you fill yours out and go over what you each think after the teacher scores it. I forget what the score sheet looked like.
I never found it to be of great use, especially compared to other screenings and assessments I did.
It shouldn't stress you or your child out in anyway and is not a lifelong labeling test
Edit: sorry, just looked it up, must have been something else that goes month by month, this goes 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, and 60 months.
I find it very weird that they're doing the questionairre in a group setting. When I worked with Help Me Grow (Ohio's Early Intervention program), we would do an ASQ and ASQ:SE upon the initial visit and again at 3-6 month intervals. It's hard enough to get a kid to warm up to you enough to get them to participate in a one-on-one setting- we often had to have the parents kind of set up each "task" and encourage their kids. I find it VERY weird that they're specifically testing the Social & Emotional portion of the ASQ in a group setting, without familiy present, as a whole hell of a lot of that section is pretty much dependent upon the parent's willingness to answer questions truthfully and interact with their child.
That said, the actual questionaire is no big deal, and it's not something that's used officially for early intervention- when we used it, it was the first step: if a kid passed the ASQ, they'd be put into our Parents as Teachers program. If they failed the ASQ, they'd come in for longer, more "formal" testing- so even if your daughter "fails"- they may refer her for more testing, but it's nothing definitive in and of itself, ESPECIALLY not done without you present. That's just bizarre.
(Sorry if this is disjointed. I'm currently having some serious BH's. Bah.)
We never did them with the parents there at Head Start. They did have to fill out a copy at home though.
Our daycare does the assessment with the preschoolers and has parents fill out a similar form at home.
I found that there were things I said Sophia couldn't do that the DCP has definitely seen her do.
http://www.brookespublishing.com/store/books/squires-asqse/ASQ-SE_Overview.pdf