# How to use ASQ Learning Activities to support child development

Ages & Stages Questionnaires, Third Edition (ASQ-3) and Ages & Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ:SE-2) are highly effective screening tools for determining whether young children are developing at an age-appropriate level, while identifying parent concerns.

These tools help providers do the important work of identifying kids who may benefit from further evaluation and intervention. But what about kids whose scores don’t necessitate referrals to pediatricians, mental health professionals, or early intervention services? Or whose parents want ideas for how to support their children's developmental and social-emotional growth?

## ASQ Learning Activities are the natural next step after screening

You may have heard of ASQ-3 Learning Activities, which has been out for a few years, and now the long-awaited ASQ:SE-2 Learning Activities & More is also available. The books were designed to complement and serve as a follow-up to the ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2 screening tools especially for children whose scores are in the monitoring zone.

### What’s in the books?

Learning activities are an easy-to-use, low-cost, and highly engaging way to move seamlessly from screening to supporting ongoing child development and promoting closer parent-child interactions.

Each book is structured a bit differently, but both include tons of fun and simple activity ideas that parents can try between screenings to help their children make progress in certain developmental or social-emotional areas. All materials are written at a fourth- to sixth-grade reading level, so they’re accessible to a wide range of parents.

ASQ-3 Learning Activities offers more than 400 activities (about 30 for each age range), which correspond to the five developmental areas as ASQ-3: communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving, and personal-social.

ASQ:SE-2 Learning Activities has 90 activities (more than 10 for each age range), as well as a variety of additional resources: newsletters for parents that explain social-emotional development; age-specific tip sheets on sleeping, feeding, and calming; and handouts that address topics like child care, stress, and toileting, which are linked to social-emotional development.

## When to use the books

ASQ Learning Activities are a valuable follow-up tool that can benefit many families, including:

- Families of children whose ASQ-3 or ASQ:SE-2 screening results indicate that development is on schedule.
- Families of children whose ASQ scores indicate the need for monitoring.
- Families who share general concerns or questions during the screening process, regardless of their children’s total scores.
- Families of children with scores in the referral area (below the cutoff on ASQ-3 or above the cutoff on ASQ:SE-2) but found not eligible for services.

## Sharing activities and resources is easy

The resources in each book are designed as handouts that you can share with parents in several simple ways:

- Share through ASQ Online. Simply enter the keycode on the front inside cover into your account. Then, you can add the handouts to ASQ Family Access thank you pages or document packets that you print for families.
- Send full-color PDFs from the CD-ROM to parents via email.

## News & Updates

Learn more and order ASQ Learning Activities. Get more details about what’s in each ASQ Learning Activities book and order your copy today! ASQ-3 Learning Activities is available in English or Spanish. ASQ-SE:2 Learning Activities & More is available in English and the Spanish version publishes in May 2018.