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Screening and assessment provide valuable information about each child's interests, strengths, and needs. Screening gives a snapshot of whether the child's development is on track. Assessment is an ongoing process that includes observation and provides information about development over time.

General Developmental Screening Tools Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ) Battelle Developmental Inventory Screening Tool, 2nd ed (BDI-ST) Bayley Infant Neurodevelopmental Screen (BINS) Brigance Screens-II. Child Development Inventory (CDI) Child Development Review-Parent Questionnaire (CDR-PQ)

Parent and patient handouts from the Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit address key information for health supervision care from infancy through adolescence. You may receive print outs of this, or similar, information following well visits at a CHOP Primary Care location.

Ask about emotional and physical development. Perform a physical examination and track physical growth and development. Provide recommended immunizations. Share guidance to help children and adolescents stay healthy.

Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health (2002) is a two-volume set considering the mental health of children in a developmental context, presenting information on early recognition and intervention for specific mental health problems and mental disorders, and providing a tool kit with hands on tools for health ...

The CEBC defines a screening tool as a brief questionnaire or procedure that examines risk factors, mental health/trauma symptoms, or both to determine whether further, more in-depth assessment is needed on a specific area of concern, such as mental health, trauma, or substance use.

The Bright Futures/American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care, also known as the "Periodicity Schedule," is a schedule of screenings and assessments recommended at each well-child visit from infancy through adolescence.

At selected visits, Bright Futures recommends universal screening for issues such as child development, maternal or adolescent depression, substance use, or oral health.

Bright Futures Toolkit: Links to Commonly Used Screening Instruments and Tools. At selected visits, Bright Futures recommends universal screening for developmental concerns, behavioral/social/emotional concerns, maternal depression, adolescent depression and suicide risk, substance use, or oral health concerns.