TY - JOUR
AU - Meisels, S J
AB -  Developmental screening has great potential for improving the lives of young children. As a bricf assessment procedure designed to identify children who should receive more intensive diagnosis or assessment, screening is designed to help children who are at-risk for developmental problems, handicapping conditions, and school failure to receive ameliorative intervention services as early as possible. Developmental screening instruments have been in use for more than two decades. In 1966 Knobloch and her associates (43) formulated a de­ velopmental screening inventory for infants by adapting the Gesell De­ velopmental Schedules. Shortly after this, Frankenburg and his colleagues published the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST; 23). The Den­ ver quickly became the most widely used screening test worldwide. During the past 20 years the utilization of screening has increased through the enactment of major federal and state programs and laws. In 1967 the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment program (EPSDT) was passed by Congress. E P SDT requires that both medical and developmental screening be provided, on a periodic basis, to all Medicaid-eligible children younger than age 21. The program is implemented by the states and relies on combined federal-state funding. In 1975 P.L. 94-142, the Education for 
TI - Developmental Screening in Early Childhood: The Interaction of Research and Social Policy
JF - Annual Review of Public Health
DO - 10.1146/annurev.pu.09.050188.002523
DA - 1988-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/annual-reviews/developmental-screening-in-early-childhood-the-interaction-of-research-jOo5nW0wn3
SP - 527
EP - 550
VL - 9
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -