Child Development And Screening Analysis

The aim of a checklist is to assess to what a child can fulfill or complete in an age-appropriate skill. It records data on a child on how they finish tasks and how they go around their surroundings. (Darragh, 2010). This helps teachers to gather information and helps them to see what a child knows and can do about the outcome. This offers ways of gathering information about the child’s certain behavior’s their knowledge and their accomplishments. The intention is that it provides tools for coordinating and recording of the child’s observations. It helps provide the instruments for self-assessments in the child. It presents samples of things of the child before collecting and evaluating data of their work records and their developing of certain
(Darragh, 2010). The checklist for development and the screening tools can tell the child’s progress in development. These are to be made out by the parent and the early childhood professionals. (Darragh, 2010). There are checklist and screenings that are performed at a community level that identifies the child’s development that is not producing like it should. Screening is to occur regularly and should come about where the kid is comfortable. The screening and development checklist plays an important part in the determination of children and families in the need to take a part in a more formal assessment plan of action. (Darragh, 2010). When a screening is done, there can be several outcomes it can exhibit no further evaluation is needed or it can show more evaluation is called for. There is another that shows that a rescreen is needed. No matter the outcome the developmental screening it gives information on the child’s development. This data can be used to let families know the degree of functioning and they can understand the child’s growth. (Darragh,
It helps programs to find possible learning blocks like developmental delays, troubles with learning, or who are not ready for school. The ESI-R has two forms the preschool version which is the ESI-P which is aged three to four and a half years of age. They have the ESI-K which is the kindergarten version it is for ages 4 years, 5 months, 16 days to 6 years old. These tests are available in both English and Spanish language. The ESI does not score the child but it classifies if the child is OK, Rescreen, and Refer. A refer is a possible delay or disorder in the possibility of the child acquiring knowledge. A parent might ask how long the ESI takes? It takes about 15-20 min to administer the test. (Meisels, 2000). A parent might ask how reliable and valid is the screenings. The screening was done and validated on 6000 children, most of them enrolled at Head Start. Reliability data says the screening is highly stable and it is a consistent type of screening. The test identified 9 out of 10 children who were at risk for problems in school. And excluded children who were not at risk. (Meisels, 2000). Another screening and checklist instrument are the first step preschool screening tool which is aged and stages questionnaire of social and emotional and it is parent administered. This type of screening is to identify young children who may be at risk for social and