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 – Please see the 10-25-2023 Provider Information Notice for full details on recent assessment tool updates.
List of assessment tools available to preview from the Clearinghouse
The collection of Early Childhood Assessment Kits is available for in-house use only and may not leave the EI Clearinghouse Library. Due to the high cost of the assessment tool manuals and materials and the formal copyright restrictions outlined by the various publishing companies, these items are available for browsing by appointment only within the library. 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)