Developmental Assessment Paper

Developmental assessment is essential in the provision of pediatric care because it helps give the health care provider and parents the developmental status of the child, which include fine and gross motor skills of the infants, psychosocial and emotional development of pediatric populations. Some of the components assessed in pediatric population include general health, nutrition, fine and gross motor skill, behavior and social skills, values, self-esteem, language development and cognitive development. Assessment helps to identify any social need the child might have, and determine appropriate placement for the child (Murphy, 2013).

Some of the assessment tools for developmental screening include Ages and stages questionnaire (ASQ), Child Developmental Inventories CDI, the ounce scale, Parents’ Evaluation of Development Status (PEDS), Pediatric check list, Denver Developmental Screening Test II (DDST-II), Developmental Profile 3 (DP-3), Early Childhood Inventory-4 (ECI-4), Early Screening Profile, Infant-Toddler Developmental Assessment etc. The DDST-II is more accurate and mostly used by providers than the other tools. It is used to check for any possible or confirm developmental problems in children; it checks for motor skill, speech and social skill (Longo et al. 2012).

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