## Promoting Optimal Development: Screening for Behavioral and Emotional Problems

This journal article, published in a 2015 volume of Pediatrics, focuses on the need to increase behavioral screening and offers potential changes in practice and the health system, as well as the research needed to accomplish this.

## Success Story: Screening in the Child Welfare System

Learn how and why Pennsylvania’s Department of Public Welfare (DPW) adopted the ASQ-3 and the ASQ:SE as the program’s screening tools of choice after the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania established a statewide developmental and social-emotional screening program.

## Trends in the Use of Standardized Tools for Developmental Screening in Early Childhood: 2002–2009

This study, published in a 2011 volume of Pediatrics, compares pediatricians’ use of standardized screening tools from 2002 to 2009.

## SEAM Technical Report

To confirm the utility and efficacy of SEAM, intensive research has been performed. Read more about the research behind SEAM in this technical appendix.

## Adaptation From Paper–Pencil to Web-Based Administration of a Parent-Completed Developmental Questionnaire for Young Children

In 2013, Infants & Young Children published this article that examined whether results differed when ASQ screenings were completed on paper or online. The study found that the results can be considered equivalent.

## The Evidence Behind Developmental Screening Instruments

This study, published in Infants & Young Children in 2012, reviews 14 commonly used tools that identify young children with developmental delays, including ASQ.

## Understanding Developmental-Behavioral Screening Measures

In 2012, Pediatrics in Review published this article, which explains how and why using standardized screening tools in pediatric practices is crucial to child development.

## Impact of Implementing Developmental Screening at 12 and 24 Months in a Pediatric Practice

This study, published by Pediatrics in 2007, investigated the effectiveness and costs of incorporating ASQ developmental screening, into the 12- and 24-month well-child visits under “real world” conditions.

## Findings and Implications of Developmental Screening for High-Risk Children Referred to a Tertiary Developmental Disability Center

This journal article, which was published in a 2014 issue of the Journal of Pediatric Health Care, shows agreement between scores on the ASQ-3, the M-CHAT, and SCQ.

## New Tool for Social-Emotional Assessment

This poster evaluates the technical adequacy of the SEAM for Infants and Toddlers. This poster was originally presented by Jane Squires and Jantina Clifford at Zero to Three’s National Training Institute in 2014.