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.
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)
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.
Adaptive/Functional Skills
- Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI)/PEDI-CAT
- Scales of Independent Behavior-Revised
- Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales
Articulation
- Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation
- Hodson Assessment of Phonological Patterns-3 (HAPP-3)
Cognitive
- Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales
Communication
- Mac Arthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories
- Pre-School Language Scale (PLS 4 or 5)
- Receptive Expressive Emergent Language Scale
- Reynell Developmental Language Scales
- Rosetti Infant Toddler Language Scale
Global
- Assessment Evaluation & Programming System (AEPS)
- Battelle Developmental Inventory
- Bayley Scales of Infant Development-3
- Developmental Assessment of Young Children-2 (DAYC-2)
- Early Learning Accomplishment Profile (ELAP)
- Infant-Toddler Developmental Assessment (IDA)
- Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL)
- Transdisciplinary Play Based Assessment-2 (TPBA-2)
Motor
- Peabody Developmental/Motor Scales-2
- Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP)
Sensory
- Infant Toddler Sensory Profile
Social Emotional
- Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Infants and Toddlers (DECA I/T)
- Scales of Independent Behavior-Revised
- Temperament & Atypical Behavior Scale (TABS)