Development
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What is an ASQ?
ASQ stands for Ages & Stages Questionnaire. The ASQ is an evidence-based screening tool used to understand your child’s development. ASQ’s measure developmental progress, like how a child learns, speaks, moves, behaves, and relates, in children aged one month to 6 years. Children develop at their own pace; developmental milestones help you know what to expect as they grow. Help Me Grow Butte can help caregivers complete an ASQ and learn more about their child’s development. It’s never too early to complete an ASQ, especially if you’re curious about your child’s development.
Each questionnaire only takes about 15 minutes to complete!
To learn more about the Ages & Stages Questionnaires, you can visit the official ASQ website
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The ASQ-3 is a 30 question screening tool used for children 1 month to 5 1/2 years old that looks at 5 important areas of development.
Communication: Language Skills, including what your child understands and what they can say
Gross Motor: Using their arms, legs, and other large muscles for sitting, walking, crawling, etc.
Fine Motor: Hand and and finger movements
Problem-Solving: Playing with toys and solving problemsagesandstages.com/about-asq/for-parents
Personal-Social: Self-help skills and interactions with others
More information can be found at agesandstages.com/about-asq/for-parents
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SE stands for “Social Emotional” this screening tool is used to measure your child’s social-emotional skills only. This questionnaire is used for children from 1 month to 6 years old. The 7 important areas this questionnaire focuses on are:
Autonomy: Willingness to be independent
Compliance: Ability to follow rules
Adaptive functioning: Ability to cope with needs like sleeping and eating
Self-regulation: Ability to calm or adjust to conditions around them
Affect: Willingness to show feelings and empathy towards others
Interaction: Ability to respond to parents, adults, or peers
Social-communication: Willingness to interact with others by expressing interests or feelings
More information can be found at agesandstages.com/about-asq/for-parents
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Communication: the ability to use and understand language
Cognitive: the ability to understand cause and effect and to problem solve
Social & Emotional: the ability to manage emotions and relate to others
Motor: the ability to use large and small muscles for movement, balance, reaching and grasping
Adaptive: the ability to engage in self-help skills like toileting, eating and dressing
To learn more about developmental milestones, visit the CDC’s website at www.cdc.gov.
What happens after you submit an ASQ?
Once you complete an ASQ, the results are shared with the Help Me Grow Care Coordinator. Our Care Coordinator will contact you within 5 business days of receiving the ASQ results. Depending on your child's results, the Care Coordinator will help connect your family to services in the community or share activities and resources to promote your child’s development. It’s never too early or late to complete an ASQ, especially if you’re curious about your child’s development. Complete an ASQ today to be connected to the Help Me Grow Butte Care Coordinator.
A child’s growth is more than just physical. Parenting can be easier when you know what to look for as your baby grows.
1 in 4 Children will experience a developmental delay.
Universal early childhood screening provides caregivers with the tools they need to support their children early in their life. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends conducting developmental screening using evidence-based tools such as the ASQ, at 9, 18, 30 months, or whenever a question comes up. Visit aap.org/screening for more information.
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