This helpful guide moves professionals step-by-step through the screening and assessment tool, Temperament and Atypical Behavior Scale (TABS): Early Childhood Indicators of Developmental Dysfunction. It includes:

• an introduction to the TABS materials
• procedures for administration, scoring, and interpreting results
• an overview of the importance of and dysfunctions related to temperament and self-regulation
• reliability and validity data including normative means, standard deviations, and cutoff scores for both typical and atypical...

Meeting a crucial need, this book provides clear recommendations for authentic developmental assessment of children from infancy to age 6, including those with developmental delays and disabilities. It describes principles and strategies for collecting information about children's everyday activities in the home, preschool, and community, which provides a valid basis for intervention planning and progress monitoring. Throughout, the book emphasizes the importance of enlisting parents as partners with practitioners and teachers in observation and team-based decision making. Special features of...

Meeting a crucial need, this book offers recommendations for authentic developmental assessment of children from infancy to age 6, including those with developmental delays and disabilities.