If you are looking for brief and accurate developmental and behavioral surveillance measures, you'll find a nice review at this site: http://www.dbpeds.org/articles/dbtesting/index.html Thanks, Frances Page Glascoe On Sun, 26 Jul 1998 09:25:45 -0500 Dogwood Ridge <> wrote: > Tim- What is the name of the book that has the Ruth Griffith scale in it - > I'm having trouble locating it and I want to review it and see if its > something I'm familiar with and have forgotten its name or if it's new to > me. Thanks- Kim Burlingham, MD > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Ferguson <> > To: <> > Date: Sunday, July 26, 1998 4:12 AM > Subject: Re: Developmental Asessment tools > > > >On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 12:40:50 -0500, you wrote: > > > >>Clare- Is the Ruth Griffith Scale like our the Denver Developmental Test > >>that we use to assess a child's development from birth through age 5? > The > >>Denver subdivides milestones into fine motor skills, gross motor skills, > >>language and social adaptive skills. Thanks- Kim > > > >Not really: we used to use the DDST too in the UK, but most > >authorities dropped it in the early 90's with the change away from > >screening and toward health promotion. > > > >DDST is a screening test: quick; applicable to mass use; pass/ fail; > >minimal equipment. > > > >RGDS is a diagnostic assessment: takes >= 1 hour, requires training > >and specialised equipment to administer, gives a variety of diagnostic > >information. Specifically, this is a Developmental Quotient (DQ) in > >five scales - Locomotor, Personal-Social, Hearing and Language, > >Hand-Eye coordination, and Performance. For the over-two's there is an > >extra scale called Practical Reasoning. The last two are increasingly > >abstract: concepts like "bigger" and "little", counting, knowing coins > >and so on. > > > >In each scale the mean DQ is 100 with SD of 15, but it's the pattern > >that often provides the most information. High A, poor B and lowest C > >is a likely hearing/ speech difficulty; wide spread on all scales > >suggests a developmental disability and so on. There's a graph on the > >scoring book that makes the profile easy to recognise. > > > >Many people here are moving from the RGDS to the SOGS or Schedule of > >Growing Skills, and it's quicker to do and cheaper on equipment. For > >my money, I'm not sure that the authors have quite sorted out whether > >they are looking for a screening test or a diagnostic tool and that's > >why I don't really trust it at present. > > > >All the best - sorry this is a bit long! > > > >Tim F > > > >-- > ><!--- ---> > > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Frances Page Glascoe Associate Professor of Pediatrics Editor, Ambulatory Child Health Vanderbilt University Dept of Pediatrics - CDC 426 Medical Center South Nashville, TN 37232-3573 phone: 615-936-0249 fax: 615-936-0256 Email: