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Delayed or Unprepared?: A Parent's Field Guide to Developmental Screening

by Mira Halverson
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798197587404
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 282
  • Original Price: GBP 11.16
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 381 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Parenting / General

Your child isn't behind. Nobody told you what was on the test.


The morning of the screening, you grab the Velcro shoes. You've been grabbing them since she was two. Then her preschool runs a kindergarten readiness screening, one of the items is "ties shoelaces," and the screener marks it below expected. She isn't behind on shoe-tying. She has never once been asked to tie a shoe. You taught her exactly the wrong thing to know on the day it counted.


That's the Velcro Trap.


The screening tools most U.S. preschools and pediatricians use - BRIGANCE Screens III, ASQ-3, Denver-II, DIAL-4, PEDS, and FAST Star Early Literacy - test for more than two hundred specific skills. The items are not mysterious. They are not subjective. But parents are not given the list. You fill out the questionnaire, sit through the appointment, get a result in language like "monitoring zone" or "below cutoff," and never learn what was actually measured.


This book is the list.


What's inside


Every skill the major early-childhood screens are looking for, ages 2 to 5, organized into seven developmental domains:


- Gross Motor - running, hopping, balance, ball skills

- Fine Motor - pencil grasp, scissors, buttoning, shoe-tying

- Language & Communication - vocabulary, sentence length, narrative

- Cognitive - colors, shapes, counting, patterns, memory

- Self-Help & Adaptive - utensils, dressing, hygiene

- Social-Emotional - separation, sharing, peer play, rules

- Test-Taking & Interface - sitting, headphones, tablet gestures


Each skill gets the same five-part field-guide entry: what they'll ask, why it matters, how to teach it, what "got it" looks like, and what to do if you've practiced and it isn't coming.


What else is in the book


- An escalation guide for when practice isn't closing the gap

- A specialist map (pediatrician, developmental-behavioral pediatrician, SLP, OT, PT, BCBA, audiologist)

- A free-services guide covering IDEA Part C (Early Intervention) and Part B (school-age special education)

- A 90-Day Practice Tracker

- A what-to-bring checklist for any evaluation appointment

- A complete skills index, by domain and alphabetical


Who this is for


Parents of children ages 2 to 5 who want to prepare for a developmental screening, who have just received a flagged result and need a reference written in plain language, or who want one book on the shelf that covers what schools and pediatricians actually test before kindergarten.


This is a parent's reference, not medical advice. If a screen flags your child, the right next step is evaluation by a qualified professional - and this book is how you walk in informed.

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