CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The DDST is used to screen children from two weeks through 6 years of age in four developmental domains; gross motor, fine motor adaptive, personal social and language skills. The test consists of ] 05 items but only those items are administered which are appropriate to the child’s age.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are two primary types of assessments: norm-referenced and criterion-referenced. Norm-referenced assessments compare an individual child’s performance to that of other same-age children, in a standardized score such as a developmental quotient.

Detailed explanation-3: -Results for developmental tests on an infant or very young child may be reported as a Developmental Quotient (DQ) or Developmental Index (DI). Like an IQ, the DQ or DI refers to how well a child performs on a standard set of tasks as compared with a normative sample of children the same age.

Detailed explanation-4: -A normal score means no delay in any domain and no more than one caution; a suspect score means one or more delays or two or more cautions; a score of untestable means enough refused items that the score would be suspect if they had been delays.