ASQ:SE-2: Your Key to Meeting New Guidelines for Social-Emotional Screening - Brookes Blog
ASQ:SE-2: Your Key to Meeting New Guidelines for Social-Emotional Screening
November 28, 2024
Over the summer, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) published a final rule on Supporting the Head Start Workforce and Consistent Quality Programming. (Read a summary here.) The new requirements outlined in this final rule include screening for social and emotional development and follow-up with parents. ACF provided the following new guidance on social-emotional screening for young children:
“Programs can ensure a child is up-to-date on mental health care by obtaining determinations from any social, emotional, or behavior screening as prescribed by the EPSDT program of the Medicaid agency of that state in which they operate. ACF believes that screening for mental health concerns is an important way to ensure children and families with needs are identified early and can access appropriate interventions.”
ASQ:SE-2: Your best option for screening
For regular social-emotional screening, no tool is more trusted than Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: Social-Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ®:SE-2), a highly reliable, parent-completed screener for children from 1-72 months. When you use ASQ:SE-2 with every child in your program, you’ll meet guidelines for social-emotional screening and catch any delays early, when intervention makes the most difference.
Modeled after the widely used ASQ ®-3 screener and trusted for more than 20 years, ASQ:SE-2 is an easy-to-use tool with a deep, exclusive focus on children’s social and emotional behavior. Programs love ASQ:SE-2 because it:
- Focuses on social-emotional areas that have a powerful impact in the critical early years: self-regulation, compliance, social-communication, adaptive functioning, autonomy, affect, and interaction with people
- Allows professionals to quickly recognize young children at risk for social or emotional difficulties so they can get support as early as possible
- Makes it easy to partner with families and engage them in their children’s social-emotional development (check out these learning activities parents can use between screenings!)
- Highlights both milestones to celebrate and behaviors of concern to caregivers
- Identifies any need for further social-emotional assessment with a tool like SEAM
LEARN MORE about ASQ:SE-2 in this introductory slide presentation!
FREE DOWNLOAD: Social-Emotional Screening Toolkit
This practical toolkit will help your program get started with social-emotional screening using ASQ:SE-2. Use these handouts, tip sheets, charts, and other resources to effectively implement ASQ:SE-2, involve families in the screening process, and boost a child’s social-emotional development between screenings.