Parental and professional assessment of early child development: The ASQ-3 and the Bayley-III-NL

Examining Infertility Treatment and Early Childhood Development in the Upstate KIDS Study

“…23,26,27,37,38 For the Upstate KIDS Study, cutoffs at 2 SDs below the average were used to maximize specificity and minimize overreferral that might result in undue parental distress. A small Iranian study using the ASQ at 60 months similarly reported no differences in the failure of domains among 61 singlet on term infants conceived by ART compared with 61 infants spontaneously conceived after adjusting for education and birth weight.…”

Prospective evaluation of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3rd Edition in very‐low‐birthweight infants

“…Similarly, our test correlations improved with increasing age as well (Spearman's q=0. 16, 0.22, 0.39, and 0.56 respectively). However, unlike Schonhaut et al's cross-sectional sample, where each child was examined at only one age point, our study cohort had prospective longitudinal follow-up and was uniformly preterm.…”

“…16 Other authors have found significant differences between the USA and other population-specific norms on the Bayley III. There were statistically significant differences between participants and non-participants in terms of ethnic group.…”

Recommendations on screening for developmental delay

“…34 The study reported sensitivity and specificity for the Ages and Stages Questionnaire of 82% and 78%, respectively (22% false-positive rate) and for the Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status of 74% and 64%, respectively (36% false-positive rate). 34 The other study 35 evaluated the Ages and Stages Questionnaire among 565 children (13 cases, 552 noncases) aged 18 to 42 months who were enrolled in a cohort study on child development and reported sensitivity and specificity of 62% and 84%, respectively (16% false-positive rate). Only three of the five identified studies contemporaneously compared screening tools to diagnostic assessments with enough cases and noncases to reasonably evaluate diagnostic accuracy; among these higher-quality studies, the false-positive rate was 16%-22% for the Ages and Stages Questionnaire and 36% for the Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status.…”

“…The systematic review 19 identified five studies of screening tools. These studies, which compared the accuracy of screening tests to detect concurrently assessed developmental delay, consisted of four studies [32][33][34][35] of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire 36 and one study of the Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status. 37 Of the four studies of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire that were identified, two had insufficient numbers of cases and noncases to accurately estimate sensitivity or specificity.…”