ASQ-3 12 months - how many yes ticks?!

[Peppermint81]

I've received the ASQ-3 12 month questionnaire to complete for my nearly one year old, as the health visitor is coming for the first time since he was born...

It doesn't look like I will be ticking many items, maybe one or two in each section. So now worried he is behind developmentally! I am a FTM so no experience of this. Like can one year old really throw a ball back to you so you can return it?!

Does anyone have any experience with these tests? How many ticks did you have?

My boy was the same but the HV wasn't worried. I still can't help dreading the 2 year questionnaire as he is seriously behind in the communication section. However, I know it's a good thing as his 'delays' will be acknowledged and maybe we will get some help.

You can see the 'scoring sheet' at the end of this copy of the questionnaire: www.alzeinpeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/AZM-ASQ-12MONTH.pdf. In general, about 4 'yeses' (or an equivalent combination of 'yeses' and 'sometimes') works out to 'development appears to be on track', but it does vary a bit across the categories.

The grey category seems to roughly equate to 'probably just taking his/her time, but worth keeping an eye on'. I think the categories are designed such that roughly 1 in 7 or 1 in 8 children will fall in the grey, and of course most of those will go on to develop completely fine.

You say your wee one hasn't had his birthday yet, so he's also still on the young side for the questionnaire – he may well suddenly add new skills in the next few weeks. I remember doing the questionnaire for my daughter and thinking that she was in the white for gross motor skills, but if I'd done it a week earlier, she'd have been in the black.

@skkyelark

You can see the 'scoring sheet' at the end of this copy of the questionnaire: www.alzeinpeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/AZM-ASQ-12MONTH.pdf. In general, about 4 'yeses' (or an equivalent combination of 'yeses' and 'sometimes') works out to 'development appears to be on track', but it does vary a bit across the categories.

The grey category seems to roughly equate to 'probably just taking his/her time, but worth keeping an eye on'. I think the categories are designed such that roughly 1 in 7 or 1 in 8 children will fall in the grey, and of course most of those will go on to develop completely fine.

You say your wee one hasn't had his birthday yet, so he's also still on the young side for the questionnaire – he may well suddenly add new skills in the next few weeks. I remember doing the questionnaire for my daughter and thinking that she was in the white for gross motor skills, but if I'd done it a week earlier, she'd have been in the black.

Thanks @skkyelark, the scoring sheet is super helpful. I just did the tests with him and he did not do as bad as I thought, most are in the grey and couple in white but none in black! Phew! He not walking yet so behind on the gross motor but weirdly his fine motor skills really good!? He was 4 weeks premature too but born big and never seemed to be behind with anything but maybe there is a slight delay from it

Hey @Peppermint81 & @HeyDuggeesFavouriteSquirrel how did your little ones come on?