ECE 354 Assessment And Intervention During Early Childhood

Screeners and Diagnostic tests
Jessica Evangeline Adams
ECE 354 Assessment & Intervention During Early Childhood
Instructor Cassandra Melendez
May, 4, 2015

Screeners and Diagnostic tests
The purpose of this paper is to address the significance of child development milestones and to bring awareness to the significance of developmental awareness in children from birth to five years of age. More specifically I am going to address areas of developmental strengths and weaknesses that were discovered through the application of a very helpful and important diagnostic tool for child development, a developmental milestone checklist. Even further I am going to incorporate the understandings gained from the observation of two specific
The first checklist was filled out in accordance to observation performed thirty six months and two weeks after the child’s date of birth. The child’s name is Ryan Weaver and he was three and a half years old at the time of the described assessment. Developmental abilities were observed and recorded in comparison with the appropriate age range and milestones of the child. Age range for selected for Ryan Weaver’s milestone assessment was between three and four years of age. The second checklist details the observations of a child named Trevor Jones who was of a different age and in a different developmental phase than the first child, Ryan Weaver. The checklist consisted of similar and separate milestones that were age appropriate and specific to the age range that Trevor fit into. Observation of the second child took place when the child was twelve months, two days old or one year of age. The developmental checklist selected for Trevor included age appropriate milestones and was ranged from eight to twelve months of
Just like Ryan Weaver’s checklist Trevor’s includes Movement and hand and finger abilities, cognitive development, language milestones and social and emotional abilities. The checklist consists of developmental skills and abilities that are congruent with milestones that are expected to take place between the ages of eight months and one year of age. However there are developmental milestones that are included on the checklist that happen during a very specific age span such as from ten to twelve months or from eight to ten months in particular. All age periods fall under the checklist age range and are included to specify specific skills that are projected to take place at certain ages. In the Movement milestones section, physical aptitude and abilities were observed. The developmental milestones observed included the infant’s ability to perform corporeal abilities that occur as the infant matures form month to month. Capabilities such as sitting up independently, crawling on his belly, propping himself up on his hands and knees and crawling on hands and knees are all skills that a baby has to perform in order to gain strength, balance and the ability to walk and toddle. Movement milestones for infants aged ten to twelve months include transitioning himself from crawling to lying down, leveraging himself and pulling himself to a standing position from a sitting one. The child also gains the capacity