# Providers and Parents as Partners in Using ASQ®-3 in a Virtual Environment

## April 2020

### Webinar Goal
Learn how to support families and continue screening services during a health crisis

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### Presenters
- **Angela Rau**  
  Virtual Parent Education Specialist  
  Parents as Teachers National Center
- **Elizabeth Twombly, M.S.**  
  ASQ Author and Trainer
- **Amy Clause**  
  Marketing Manager  
  Brookes Publishing

### Focused Objectives for Today
- Navigating our current environment for screening
- Focusing on ASQ-3 administration
- Review lessons learned from Virtual Child Screening study
- Recognize the challenges and opportunities implementing child screening during the health crisis
- Identify options to access ASQ-3 questionnaires and tools available to score and document results and follow-up
- Describe considerations and resources for remote delivery of ASQ screening to families during the health crisis

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### Get Comfortable with Terminology
- **Virtual Environment**
- **Interactive Video Conferencing (IVC)**— or Live Video Conferencing or web conferencing, or . . .
- **Telecommunication**—phone and text
- **ASQ Online and Family Access**

### Questionnaire Delivery: Online
- **ASQ Online:** Secure, subscription-based system with data management, online questionnaire completion, and reporting.
- **ASQ Family Access:** Allows parents to view, print, and complete questionnaires at a secure website.
- Programs email the link to parents or add a link on their program website.

### Questionnaire Delivery: Interactive Video Conferencing (IVC) Screening
#### Option 1
- Parent completes ASQ-3 using Family Access in advance of visit.
- Professional and parent view results together through screen share.

#### Option 2
- Parent views questionnaire using Family Access.
- Parent answers questions verbally, and professional records answers in ASQ Online.

### Questionnaire Delivery: Text
- Special Release of ASQ-3 questionnaires in JPEG format; one image per questionnaire page.
- Images can be texted to parents who don’t have internet access.
- Includes fillable PDFs of Information Summary sheets for professionals to use to record responses and scores.

### Telecommunication Screening
- Professional sends images of questionnaires prior to meeting.
- Parent can try items prior to phone meeting.

### Access to Special Release
- Program administrators can apply for access to the special release of questionnaires in JPEG format and the fillable information summary sheets.

### Use a Parent-completed Tool
- Actively encourages family engagement.
- Validates parent concerns.
- Conveys the value of parents’ expertise.
- Educates parents about development.
- Bridges communication between families & providers.

### Break Down Steps for a Virtual Environment
1. Prepare parents for screening
2. Introduce screening & ASQ-3
3. Document parent responses
4. Share results
5. Support follow-up

### Virtual Screening:
1. **Prepare parents for screening**  
Reach out 1-2 weeks before the target screening date, send what’s needed using preferred method.
   - ASQ-3 Parent Guide
   - ASQ-3 Materials List

2. **Introduce screening and ASQ-3**  
Review ASQ-3 Parent Guide with the parent 3−5 days before the target screening date.

3. **Support ASQ-3 administration**  
Go through ASQ-3 together on the target screening date.

4. **Document results**  
Record parent responses using ASQ Online or other methods.

5. **Share results**  
Begin by celebrating the child, discuss results with parent within 1 week of target screening date.

6. **Support follow-up**  
Facilitate referrals if safe, monitor child’s development.

### Resources for Professionals
- Free, monthly ASQ newsletter at bit.ly/JoinASQNews
- COVID-19 Home Visiting Rapid Response resource page at www.institutefsp.org
- Q&A hosted by Brookes on April 21, 2:00 pm EST; register at bit.ly/ASQ3VirtualQA

### Questions?
- Brookes Publishing: aclause@brookespublishing.com
- Parents as Teachers National Center: customerservice@parentsasteachers.org  
  
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