What is ASQ:SE-2™?

• Parent-completed questionnaires that accurately identify young children at risk for social or emotional difficulties.
• Screens 7 key behavioral areas—self-regulation, compliance, communication, adaptive functioning, autonomy, affect, and interaction with people.

Ages & Stages Questionnaires® is a registered trademark and ASQ:SE-2™ and related logos are trademarks of Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.

What’s New with ASQ:SE-2™?

• 2-month ASQ:SE
• Extended age range 1 month-6 years.
• New data and cutoffs based on over 16,000 screenings.
• Addition of a monitoring zone.
• New formatting & design to increase utility.
• New behavior and communication items indicate early social-communication/relationship delays.

Why Choose ASQ:SE-2™?

• Easy-to-use tool with focus on children’s social and emotional behaviors.
• Provides a starting point for conversations with caregivers about behavior concerns.
• By identifying early concerns, can be used preventatively.
• Identifies any need for further assessment.

Why Engage Families?

• The family is the primary force in preparing children for school and life.
• Children benefit when all the adults who care for them work together (Bronfenbrenner, 2004).

Screening with the ASQ:SE-2 is an information gathering process to

determine if the child’s social-emotional development is on-schedule.

Sharing information is everyone’s responsibility!

Everyone brings their own experiences; observations; perspectives; values; beliefs; curiosity.

• Family: mothers, fathers, extended family…
• Providers: health, nutrition, childcare, education, mental health, social services….

Parents and family members bring:

• Child’s temperament; health history; behavior.
• Family expectations; fears and hopes.
• Culturally-rooted beliefs about child-rearing.
• Parents' experiences with school.
• Parents' beliefs about role with professionals.
• Parents' sense of control and authority.

Source: The National Center on Parent, Family and Community Engagement

Providers bring:

• Child educational, behavioral or health information.
• Personal observations and assessments of child.
• Knowledge about resources.
• Knowledge about upcoming educational environments.
• Personality, family history & culture.
• Training, experience, philosophy.
• Job mission, policies, supervision.

Source: The National Center on Parent, Family and Community Engagement

Family engagement means that family members take the lead in the information

gathering process and make decisions about what to do with the information.

Using the ASQ:SE-2:

• Creates an expectation that parents will be involved.
• Conveys the importance of the parent’s expertise.
• Creates a reciprocal experience of information sharing between parents and providers.

Tips for Family Engagement:

Introducing the ASQ:SE-2

The ASQ:SE is a tool you can use to provide a quick check of your child’s social emotional development.

The information on this questionnaire will remain confidential. I will not be sharing the information with anyone without your consent.

Your answers will show your child’s strengths as well as any behavioral concerns you may have.

Tips for Family Engagement:

The ASQ:SE-2 asks questions about your child’s social-emotional development.

Your child’s relationship with you and others. Your child’s emotional experience. Your child’s well-being and happiness.

Social-emotional development is very important to your child’s future success in school and lifelong learning.

Tips for Family Engagement:

You know your child best. Your answers help me get to know your child better and what questions or concerns you might have. Your answers help me know how I can support your child in the classroom setting. Your answers help me know if there is information I may be able to gather for you or resources you may be interested in.

Tips for Family Engagement:

Administering the ASQ:SE-2

Tips for Family Engagement:

Describe how to complete the ASQ:SE-2, including response options and concern bubble. Discuss the “Important Points to Remember” at the top of the first page of the questionnaire.

Tips for Family Engagement:

Determine how much support a parent needs to complete ASQ:SE-2 information:

• No support
• Reading items
• Interview/reframing
• Practical help
• Always be available for questions.

Make sure information gathered is from parent’s perspective.

Early Childhood Psychosocial Screening in Diverse Populations

Recommendations using the ASQ:SE-2 with culturally diverse families:

• Administer ASQ:SE-2 with provider highly recommended.

Examples:

• Provider can reframe questions; discuss the intent of items.
• Family, with providers, can make decisions about item adaptations or omissions.

Tips for Family Engagement:

Discussing Results of the ASQ:SE-2

• Timeliness: Provide screening follow-up information as soon as possible; set a time that works for the family.
• Consider cultural or language issues: Do you need an interpreter? What family members should be at the meeting? What is the family’s home language?

Tips for Family Engagement:

• Begin with parent’s perspective/parent completed ASQ:SE-2.
• Start with strengths of child (look for items marked with a Z).
• Always review items of concern; ask for more information “Can you tell me more about…..”
• Consider the parent’s point of view in interpreting information.

Tips for Family Engagement:

Discuss follow-up considerations that might influence child’s behavior:

• Offer guidance, support.
• Parents lead decisions about next steps.

Tools in the ASQ:SE-2 User’s Guide

• Conference Goals

• Child’s Strengths

• Follow-up Considerations and Behaviors of Concerns

• Follow-Up Action

Tips for Family Engagement:

Resources

Resources: What are Infant Mental Health Interventions?

1. Assess basic needs and provide support to access (i.e., food, housing).
2. Emotional support.
3. Developmental guidance.
4. Parent/Child relationship support.
5. Advocacy.
6. Parenting Strategies.
7. Positive Behavior Supports.
8. Parent-Child Interactional Therapy (Requires a trained mental health professional).

Source: Deborah Weatherston, Michigan Infant Mental Health

Tips for Family Engagement: Discussing ASQ:SE-2 results and follow-up.

Be Ready with Resources!

• Resources available through ASQ:SE-2 system.
• What your program has to offer.
• What your community has to offer.
• Parenting support/education programs, health care; Early Intervention/ECSE; Behavioral/early childhood mental health.

ASQ:SE-2 User’s Guide Tools;

Follow-up handouts

ASQ:SE-2 Users Guide Activities

• Sing songs to your baby you remember from your childhood. Hold your baby close in your arms or in a baby carrier. Gently dance with your baby.
• Play on the floor with your baby every day. Crawl around with her, or just get down and play on her level.
• Play Peekaboo and Pat-a-cake with your baby. Be playful, have fun, and laugh with your baby.

ASQ:SE-2 Users Guide Activities

• Your child loves to have a lot of hugs and kisses.
• When doing housework or yard work, allow your child to do a small part on his own.
• Play games with your child such as Go Fish, checkers, or Candy Land.

Coming Soon!

The ASQ:SE-2 Learning Activities

• Available late 2015.
• Social-emotional development & activities at different ages/stages.

Community Resources

• Parenting Education/Supports
• Head Start/Early Head Start
• Home Visiting Programs
• Childcare Resource and Referral
• Faith-based groups/YMCA
• Feeding/Sleeping specialists
• Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education
• Primary health care
• Behavioral/mental health providers

• National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families: Many free resources for providers and parents. Check out “Behavior and Development” section.
• Resources for decision-makers, caregivers, providers.

For More Information:

• Office of Head Start’s National Center on Family and Community Engagement: Resources to strengthen families & communities to support the positive growth & development of young children.
• National Association for the Education of Young Children: Principles of Effective Practice: Parent Engagement.

Brookes On Location Training

• On-site seminars from ASQ:SE-2™ experts.
• Seminars for all levels of users.
• Visit www.brookesonlocation.com

ASQ-3™ & ASQ:SE-2™ Training of Trainers Institute

• Held annually in large U.S. city center.
• August 5-7; Pennsylvania.
• Visit http://bit.ly/ASQinstitute

Special Offer for Webinar Participants!

• Save 20% on the new ASQ:SE-2 print products, plus other Brookes products!

For questions or more information:
Liz Twombly; [email protected]
Kimberly Murphy; [email protected]
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