The essential guide to the NEW edition of the trusted social-emotional screener, the updated ASQ:SE-2 User's Guide gives your program all the information and guidance you need to use the screener accurately and effectively. You’ll get:
- thorough, step-by-step instructions on screening with ASQ:SE-2, including planning and managing your screening program, administering and scoring the questionnaires, and evaluating your program’s effectiveness
- a complete technical report with psychometric data, including validity, sensitivity, and specificity
- guidance on using ASQ:SE-2 in a wide variety of settings
- sample letters and forms that increase family engagement, including a welcome letter, parent feedback survey, and parent conference sheet
- handouts and activities families can use to help promote children’s social-emotional development between screenings, plus a list of resources to support professionals
With this clear, comprehensive guide, professionals will be sure they're making the most of this highly reliable, accurate, and parent-friendly screener—so they can catch social-emotional issues early and help improve child outcomes.
The ASQ:SE-2 User's Guide is part of the ASQ:SE-2 screening system. ASQ:SE-2 is the NEW edition of the bestselling screener trusted to pinpoint social-emotional issues as early as possible during the crucial first 6 years of life. The 9 age-appropriate ASQ:SE-2 questionnaires effectively screen 7 key developmental areas: self-regulation, compliance, adaptive functioning, autonomy, affect, social-communication, and interaction with people. The second edition of ASQ:SE-2 has been revised and updated with invaluable new features, including a NEW 2-month questionnaire, an expanded age range, updated cutoff scores, new behavior and communication items, and more updates to help you better support families and promote social-emotional development.
Early identification of social-emotional problems is crucial to building a strong foundation to learning. With Ages & Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ:SE-2), a highly reliable, parent-completed tool with a deep, exclusive focus on children’s social and emotional development, it’s easier than ever to screen important areas of social-emotional competence, pinpoint behaviors of concern, and identify any need for further assessment or ongoing monitoring.
Benefits
Programs across the country rely on ASQ:SE-2 because it’s:
- highly valid, reliable, and accurate
- cost-effective
- easy to score in just minutes
- researched and tested with an unparalleled sample of diverse children
- a great way to partner with parents and make the most of their expert knowledge