Dear Family:

Resource Consultants from Children’s Centre Thunder Bay work collaboratively with Child Care Centre to support children’s overall development. One way of accomplishing this is by providing brief developmental screening for children who attend Licensed Child Care Programs. The screening tool used by the Resource Consultant is the Ages & Stages Questionnaire – 3rd Edition (ASQ-3) and the Ages & Stages Questionnaire- Social Emotional (ASQ.SE).

What is screening?

Screening is a check of your child’s development. Screening takes a snapshot of your child’s current skills and helps to identify children’s strengths or areas where your child may require additional support. Screening is done through activities/games with your child.

Why is it Important for my child to be screened?

Your child’s Educator(s) have connected with you about your child’s development and feel it would be beneficial for a screening to help ident if there is a need for additional resources and/or services that would support your child’s overall development.

What areas are screened?

ASQ-3

Communication: Your child’s language skills, both what your child understands and what he or she can say.

Gross Motor: How your child uses their arms and legs and other large muscles for sitting, crawling, walking, running, and other activities.

Fine Motor: Your child’s hand and finger movement and coordination.

Problem Solving: How your child plays with toys and solves problems.

Personal-Social: Your child’s self-help skills and interactions with others

ASQ-SE

Autonomy: Your child’s ability or willingness to self-initiate or respond without guidance (moving to independence).

Compliance: Your child’s ability or willingness to conform to the direction of others and follow rules.

Adaptive functioning: Your child’s success or ability to cope with bodily needs (sleeping, eating, toileting, safety).

Self-regulation: Your child’s ability or willingness to calm or settle down or adjust to physiological or environmental conditions or stimulation.

Affect: Your child’s ability or willingness to demonstrate their own feelings and empathy for others.

Interaction: Your child’s ability or willingness to respond to or initiate social responses with parents, other adults, and peers.

Social-communication: Your child’s ability or willingness to interact with others by responding to or initiating verbal or nonverbal signals to indicate interests, needs, or feelings.

How it Works

The Resource Consultant will contact you to discuss the screening process and will book a time that is convenient for you and your child to complete the screening. Screening results will be provided to you at the time of the screening. If any area of your child’s development requires a referral, the Resource Consultant will make that referral on your behalf with your consent.

If you have any further questions about Brief Screening, please reach out to Child Care Supervisor

Sincerely,

Child Care Support Services