Early childhood assessment is a tool used to gather and provide early intervention providers, educators, and families with critical information about a child’s development and growth. Here we have included information and resources about early childhood assessment.
IDHS Approved Assessment Instruments – note that this list does not include tools that can be used until May 30, 2024. Please see the 10-25-2023 Provider Information Notice for full details.
List of assessment tools available to preview from the Clearinghouse
Assessment kits are available for in-library preview only. Please schedule an appointment to view these items.
Adaptive/Functional Skills
- Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI)/PEDI-CAT
- Scales of Independent Behavior – Revised
Articulation
- Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation, third edition
- Hodson Assessment of Phonological Patterns – 3
Communication
- Pre-School Language Scale – 5
- Receptive Expressive Emergent Language Scale – 4
- Rossetti Infant Toddler Language Scale
Motor
- Peabody Developmental/Motor Scales-3
- Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP)
Sensory
- Sensory Profile – 2
Global
- Assessment Evaluation & Programming System 3 (AEPS3)
- Battelle Developmental Inventory – 3
- Bayley Scales of Infant Development – 4
- Carolina Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers
- Developmental Assessment of Young Children-2 (DAYC-2)
- Developmental Profile – 4
- Early Learning Accomplishment Profile (ELAP) – 3
- Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP)
- Infant-Toddler Developmental Assessment (IDA)
- Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL)
- Transdisciplinary Play Based Assessment-2 (TPBA-2)
Social Emotional
- Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Infants and Toddlers (DECA I/T)
- Scales of Independent Behavior-Revised
- Temperament & Atypical Behavior Scale (TABS)
Ages & Stages Questionnaire (ASQ3, free online access)
Developmental Screening and Assessment
Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families.
Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (MCHAT, free online access)