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PSYCHOSOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL
ASSESSMENTS TO ASSESS CHILDREN
WITH SPECIAL NEEDSLydia Betsy. M
1st year MSC
Human development
Mount carmel college
WHAT IS ASSESSMENT??
• Assessment is to estimate the degree of disability and
the residual capability of the child due to the specific
disability.
FORMAL ASSESSMENT
• Formal assessment includes medical and psychological measurement.
• Some tests available for formal assessment are:
• General ability measurement tests: Eg: Stanford Binet intelligence scale, Wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence, etc.
• Language/communication measurement: Eg: Preschool language scale, transdisciplinary play-based assessment (TBA), etc.
• Motor: Eg: Bayley scales of infant development, TBA, etc.
• Social/emotional behavior: Eg: child behavior checklist, vineland adaptive behavior scale (VABS), California preschool social competency scale, Burks’ behavior rating scales, TBA.
• Self help/Adaptive behavior measurement: Eg: Vineland adaptive behavior scale, etc.
SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL ASSESSMENT
• The Social-Emotional Assessment is a functional tool for assessing and monitoring social-emotional and behavioral development in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers at risk for social-emotional delays or problems.
• Social-Emotional Assessment yields in-depth information on children’s social-emotional skills and deficits as well as their caregivers’ strengths and areas of need.
• It was developed to assist in the early identification of social-emotional difficulties and behavior disorders.
• To prevent problems by building positive partnerships with families and optimizing positive parent–child interactions in the first years of life.
SCREENING INSTRUMENTS COMPLETED BY FAMILIES AND CAREGIVERS
AGES AND STAGES QUESTIONNAIRES: SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL (ASQ:SE)
• Personal and social areas are assessed which includes self-regulation,
communication, autonomy, coping and relationships.
• It will vary from 21 to 32 items, depending on age interval.
• It can be administered from 3 to 66 months. Time frame of 10 to 15 minutes.
• According to various research it states that it has been used successfully in
many early intervention and mental health programs. ASQ:SE as an accurate,
cost-effective, and parent-friendly instrument for screening and monitoring
of social-emotional competence in young children.
BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT OF BABY’S EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL STYLE(BABES)
• It consists of three scales which includes temperament, ability to self-
soothe and regulatory processes.
• The instrument can be used in pediatric practices, clinics and early
intervention programs.
• It can be administered from 0 to 36 months.
• Time frame of 10 minutes.
CAREY TEMPERAMENT SCALES
The scale consists of questionnaires for five age groupings:
• Early infancy temperament questionnaire for infants of 1 to 4 months.
• Revised infant temperament questionnaire for infants of 4 to 11 months.
• Toddler temperament scale for children of 1 to 3 yrs.
• Behavioral style questionnaire for children of 3 to 7 yrs.
• Middle childhood questionnaire for children of 8 to 12 yrs.
• Each questionnaire comprises of 75 to 100 behavioral descriptions that are rated on a 6-point frequency of occurrence scale.
• It can be administered from 1 month to 12 yrs of age. Time frame of 20 minutes.
DEVEREAUX EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSESSMENT PROGRAM(DECA)
• The screening instrument will include 37 items, which are designed to assess
27 positive and 10 problem behaviors.
• Behaviors are rated as occurring never, rarely, occasionally, frequently or
very frequently.
• It is administered on 2 to 5yrs.
• Time frame is 10 minutes.
EYBERG CHILD BEHAVIOR INVENTORY AND THE SUTTER EYBERG STUDENT BEHAVIOR INVENTORY
• There are 36 items of the ECBI and 38 items of the SESBI.
• Which focuses on oppositional behaviors eg: attention, conduct and
oppositional defiant.
• Parents will complete ECBI and while teachers will complete the SESBI.
• They rank each behavior on two scales: intensity and problem.
• It is administered on 2 to 16 yrs and time frame is 10 to 15 minutes.
GREENSPAN SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL GROWTH CHART
• It consists of 35 items questionnaire for parents and caregivers.
• It can be used to identify social-emotional deficits, to monitor development
of social-emotional capacities and to establish goals for interventions.
• It is administered from birth to 42 months.
• Time frame is about 10 minutes.
• Rated using a 5-point scale.
SOCIAL SKILLS RATING SYSTEMS
• The instrument focuses on positive behaviors.
• Ratings produce social skills: Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy,
and Self-Control , problem behaviors: Externalizing Problems, Internalizing
Problems, and Hyperactivity and academic competence scales.
• Evaluates the social behaviors of children and adolescents.
• The system includes teacher, parent and student questionnaire forms.
• Time frame is 10 to 25 minutes.
SCREENING INSTRUMENTS COMPLETED BY
PROFESSIONALS
FUNCTIONAL EMOTIONAL ASSESSMENT SCALE
• To measure social and emotional functioning and caregivers’ capacity to
support a child’s emotional development.
• Social-emotional development includes regulation and interest in the world,
forming relationships, intentional two-way communication, development of a
complex sense of self, representational capacity and elaboration of symbolic
thinking, emotional thinking or development and expression of thematic play.
• It is administered on 7 to 48 months. Time frame is 20 minutes.
VINELAND SOCIAL MATURITY SCALE
• It was devised by Doll in the year 1935 for measuring social development.
• The items in the test involve concepts like self-help in eating and dressing,
locomotion, occupation, communication, self-direction and socialization.
• These are arranged in age sequence from birth to maturity. Depending on the
performance it is possible to obtain social age.
• Dividing the social age by the chronological age gives a social quotient, which
may be used to supplement the IQ in arriving at a diagnosis of mental
retardation.
REFERENCES
• http://www.nectac.org/~pdfs/pubs/screening.pdf
• http://www.specialeducationguide.com/pre-k-12/what-is-special-
education/the-importance-of-the-assessment-process/
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