The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA) Program

Take a Look at Social/Emotional Health! Meet your screening and assessment performance standards with the DECA, a strength-based, user friendly approach to reducing challenging behaviors. A premier tool for assessing and promoting children's social and emotional health, the DECA encourages and supports collaboration among parents, teachers and mental health professionals.

DECA Preschool (DECA)

The DECA is a nationally normed assessment of preschool children aged two to five that promotes the social and emotional well being and helps reduce behavioral concerns.

DECA Infant & Toddler (DECA-I/T)

The DECA-I/T is a standardized, norm-referenced, reliable and valid assessment of protective factors in infants and toddlers ages 1 month up to 36 months.

e-DECA

A web-based computer version of the DECA, the e-DECA administers the assessment online, completes all scoring, stores results in a database, and generates numeric and graphic summaries of results.

DECA-Clinical (DECA-C)

The DECA-C is designed to support early intervention efforts to reduce or eliminate significant emotional and behavioral concerns in preschool children.

DECA Protective Factor Kit

Designed by teachers, FOR teachers, the DECA Program Protective Factor Kit offers effective, easy-to-implement activities and materials that can be used everyday as part of the overall daily program.