Assessments & Evaluations

This revised version offers practical assistance in the form of Notes for Clarification and an Expanded Score Sheet to simplify scoring. The items and indicators are the same as in the original version. Assess the quality of infant and toddler classrooms and enhance program development with charts detailing levels of quality from inadequate to excellent. Explanatory notes appear on facing pages. Scoring sheets and ITERS-R™ Profile included.

The Learning Accomplishment Profile -- Diagnostic (LAP™-D), Third Edition, Dual Language (English-Spanish) provides a systematic method for observing children functioning in the 30 to 72 month age range. This assessment is designed for children with typical and atypical development. The LAP™-D Kit contains a standardized set of the materials necessary to administer each item (except stairs and chairs).

For use with DECA-IT kit for children ages 18 months up to 36 months. Set of 30.

This guide provides research-based, simple, easy-to-use social and emotional strategies for the home and childcare setting. With hundreds of strategies, organized into five chapters, this guide is a wonderful reference for any caregiver who is interested in promoting the social and emotional health of infants and toddlers.

Give your child-care program a strong social-emotional foundation with the Complete TPITOS™ (Teaching Pyramid Infant-Toddler Observation Scale). This scale helps caregivers of children from birth to 3 years old evaluate the social-emotional quality of their programs by measuring how well they cultivate nurturing relationships and bolster solid social-emotional development. Caregivers and centers that use this scale will empower themselves to provide the best possible care because they will know what they're doing right and what they can do better.

Includes a list of materials, instruction for administering individual items, a summary page, an IFSP form, and a profile page. © 2001

Unpacking the Infant-Toddler Pyramid Model is an informative, comprehensive guide to creating socially and emotionally sound infant-toddler care environments. The book offers a step-by-step overview of the Pyramid Model, which is a developmental framework that promotes social-emotional competence in universal, targeted, and individualized ways. It also includes chapters on practicing self-care and building good relationships with families and colleagues, which will empower caregivers to create the effective workforce necessary to make the Pyramid Model work.

Unpacking the Pyramid Model is an informative, comprehensive guide to creating socially and emotionally sound preschool environments. The book offers a step-by-step overview of the Pyramid Model, which is a developmental framework that promotes social-emotional competence in universal, targeted, and individualized ways. It also includes chapters on building good relationships with families and colleagues that will empower early childhood educators to create the effective workforce necessary to make the Pyramid Model work

Pack of 20 LAP™-D Bilingual Scoring booklets.

Set of 5 Partial Person Pads.

Provides clear, easy-to-follow instructions for administering the LAP™-D. Scoring procedures are carefully addressed to ensure accuracy. Also, includes data regarding the norming process, statistical data, and scoring scales. One manual is included with each kit. © 2005

The Norms Reference Card shows the ratings by teacher on one side and the ratings by parent on the other side for easy comparison. T-scores, Initiative, Self-Control, Attachment, Total Protective Factors, Withdrawal/Depression, Emotional Control Problems, Attention Problems, Aggression, Total Behavioral Concerns and Percentile are the areas reviewed on the card.

Delineates procedures, materials, and criteria for administering the subscales for each developmental domain of the LAP™-D in order to ensure reliable results. One copy of each manual is included in each LAP™-D kit along with a CD of the Spanish manuals for you to print as needed from your computer. © 2005

For use with the E-LAP™ kit.

To be used in conjunction with the E-LAP™ kit. Scoring sheets are appropriate for training a child's progress three times a year. Set of 20.

Authored by Paul A. LeBuffe and Jack A. Naglieri, this manual provides essential information on the development, administration, scoring, interpretations, and utilizations of DECA-C results in assessment, eligibility determinations, intervention planning and outcome evaluation. Chapters: Introduction; Development and Standardization; Psychometric Properties; Administration and Scoring; Interpretation; The Use of the DECA and DECA-C within the Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Model. Copyright 2003 The Devereux Foundation.

Coaching with ECERS presents best practices for coaches to use in their work with teachers and administrators to help them improve classrooms and teaching practices. The author includes guidance and activities for facilitating group meetings, professional learning communities, and staff workshops. Appropriate for use with ECERS-R™ and ECERS-3™. Paperback. 120 pages.

Save when you purchase the All About the ECERS-R™ and the ECERS-R™ spiral bound.

Save when you purchase the All About the ITERS-R™ and the ITERS-R™ spiral edition.

The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment Clinical Form (DECA-C) is designed to be used by early childhood mental health consultants and other mental health professionals with select children, ages 2 through 5, who are already showing significant behavioral concerns. The DECA-C contains all of the strength-based resilience items and scales found on the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Preschoolers, 2nd Edition (DECA-P2), but also assesses social and emotional concerns, including: aggression, attention problems, emotional control problems, and withdrawal/depression.

Set of 10 diamond design cutting pads.

10 pack of blank square paper pads.

Over 200 activity cards support acquired and emerging skills. Correclated to the developmental milestones found in the LAP™-D, each card includes teaching objectives and material resources for effective implementation.

Your Journey Together (YJT) is a strength-based curriculum designed to promote the social and emotional well-being and resilience of vulnerable children and their families. Help to improve parenting skills with this research-based and trauma-informed curriculum designed to build resilience in children and their families. It focuses on empowering parents to promote safe, trusting and healing environments - all key elements of a trauma-sensitive program. While this resilience-building parenting curriculum is designed for families with young children (infants, toddlers, preschoolers) many of the concepts apply to families with children of all ages. It shows parents how to use ordinary, everyday routines, activities and interactions as resilience-building opportunities. YJT is listed on the Parenting Curricula Review Databases for Head Start and Early Head Start programs.