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Help Me Grow Vermont ResourcesAges and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ) Website?(0-5) are several widely used tools in the ASQ repertoire. They include: ASQ-3 - The Ages & Stages Questionnaires?, Third Edition (ASQ?-3) pinpoints developmental progress in children between the ages of one month to 5 ? years. Its success lies in its parent-centric approach and inherent ease-of-use.ASQ-SE:2 - This is a parent-completed, highly reliable system focused solely on social and emotional development in young children. Accurately identifying behavior through ASQ:SE-2 paves the way for next steps—further assessment, specialized intervention or ongoing monitoring, for examples—to help children reach their fullest potential during their most formative early years.The ASQ website offers research and results, free resources, demos and more.Birth to Five: Watch Me Thrive! (0-5) to 5: Watch Me Thrive! is a coordinated federal?effort and to encourage healthy child development, universal developmental and behavioral screening for children, and support for the families and providers who care for them. This site includes several resources for families and professionals in English, Spanish, and other languages. Watch Me! Online Training Me! Celebrating Milestones and Sharing Concerns is a fee, 1-hour online CEU course (approved for credit by VT Northern Lights at CCV) that helps early care and learning providers better identify and monitor developmental milestones, recognize signs of potential delays and share observations with parents. This training offers tools and best practices to support professionals and help children reach their full potential.Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive! Audience Guides for educators describe the role of early care and learning providers, early interventionists, and early childhood special educators in supporting developmental promotion, screening, referral, and linkage to services. Accompanying the guide is a list of standardized developmental and behavioral screening tools and the Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive! Toolkit, which includes information about healthy development, developmental and behavioral concerns, where to go for help, how to talk to families, and tips on how to best support children. Find more information at and download the guides at links below:An Early Care and Education Provider’s Guide for Developmental and Behavioral Screening Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive! An Early Intervention Service and Early Childhood Special Education Provider’s Guide to Support Developmental and Behavioral Screening Initiatives to 5: Watch Me Thrive! A Compendium of Screening Measures for Young Children purpose of this compendium is to identify a set of first line screening tools that meet certain quality parameters set by the federal partners. Partners identified 11 screening tools that met the following quality criteria: (a) tool accuracy, (b) inclusion of family input, and (c) inclusion of the social and emotional domain of development. Center for Disease Control and Preventions’ “Learn the Signs. Act Early.” Program program aims to improve early identification of developmental and behavioral delays, children, including autism and other developmental disabilities, so children and families can get the services and support they need. Free materials and resources for providers and families are offered in several languages. Download the Milestone Tracker App MilestoneTrackerNew FREE app for teachers and parents: Milestone Tracker. As an early care and education provider, you know the importance of tracking children’s developmental milestones, but did you know there’s a new, FREE app from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help make it easy, fun, and a great way to engage parents? CDC’s new Milestone Tracker app helps teachers and parents better understand each child’s skills and abilities, track and celebrate developmental milestones, and share developmental progress from ages 2 months through 5 years.The app offersParent- and teacher-friendly, interactive checklists adapted from the American Academy of Pediatrics;Photos and videos that illustrate developmental milestones;Activities for supporting early development in the classroom and at home;Tips for taking action when there is a developmental concern; andAppointment and developmental screening reminders.Encourage parents to use this FREE app. Access a printable poster (8.5” x 11”) for your classroom or center, a web button for your website, and more at HYPERLINK "" MilestoneTracker.Milestones in Action Photo and Video Library (0-5) (English) (Spanish)This website offers a free library of photos and videos demonstrating developmental milestones from 2 months to 5 years of age. The library was created to help family members and early childhood professionals to identify developmental milestones in very young children and recognize any areas of concern. The entire collection is also available in Spanish.Help Me Grow Vermont (0-8) Help Me Grow Vermont is an integrated system that works to align cross-sector efforts to strengthen families and ensure that all children reach their greatest potential. Help Me Grow key strategies include:connect families to information and community resources related to pregnancy, child development, and parentingpromote and offer developmental monitoring and screeningtrain providers to conduct developmental monitoring and screening and use Vermont’s developmental screening registryprovide care coordination that empowers parents to be advocates for their childrenfacilitate partnerships within the community to improve family’s access to quality servicesFind many resources and information for both providers and families, including free developmental screening, at or dial?2-1-1?ext. 6,?text?HMGVT?to898211, and email at?info@. Universal Developmental Screening Registry The registry allows screening results to be securely shared between medical homes, early care and education, and other community service providers to improve early identification of risks and delays to ensure that children and families are linked to appropriate services and developmental supports.Access a developmental screening toolkit to support implementation, access and technical support. Access the portal to the registry is found on this page – bookmark for those who are utilizing the registry!Vermont’s Developmental and Behavioral Screening Guidelines and Preferred Tool List American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends conducting developmental surveillance at every health supervision visit and conducting general developmental screening using evidence-based tools at 9, 18, and 30 months, or whenever a concern is identified. In addition, autism-specific screening is recommended at ages 18 and 24 months, and social-emotional screening is recommended at regular intervals. In Vermont, primary care providers are required to use a standardized screening tool. Preferred screening tools are included in Vermont’s universal developmental screening (UDS) registry, a statewide data collection and communication system for screening results. Policy Briefs:Better Together: Developmental Screening and Monitoring Best Identify Children Who Need Early Intervention Children receiving developmental monitoring and developmental screening together were more likely to receive early intervention compared to children receiving monitoring alone, screening alone, or neither. These findings support the AAP recommendations indicating that developmental monitoring and screening are complementary strategies for improving early identification and linkage to early intervention for young children.The Pediatrician’s Role in Optimizing School Readiness School readiness includes not only the early academic skills of children but also their physical health, language skills, social and emotional development, motivation to learn, creativity, and general knowledge. Pediatricians, by the nature of their relationships with families and children, may significantly influence school readiness. Pediatricians have a primary role in ensuring children’s physical health through the provision of preventive care, treatment of illness, screening for sensory deficits, and monitoring nutrition and growth. They can promote and monitor the social-emotional development of children by providing anticipatory guidance on development and behavior, by encouraging positive parenting practices, by modeling reciprocal and respectful communication with adults and children, by identifying and addressing psychosocial risk factors, and by providing community-based resources and referrals when warrantedVermont’s Developmental Screening Brief screening recommendations and preferred tool list. ................
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