APPROVED ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS – 02/15/11
(Not an exclusive list)
Developmental Area/ Test Name
Global
♦ Assessment Evaluation & Programming System (AEPS)
♦ Alpen-Boll Developmental Profile II
♦ Batelle Developmental Inventory
♦ Carolina Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers
♦ Child Developmental Inventory (CDI)
♦ Early Learning Accomplishment Profile (ELAP)
♦ Infant Development Inventory (IDI)
♦ INSITE (for visually impaired)
♦ Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP)
♦ Infant Toddler Developmental Profile (IDA)
♦ Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL)
♦ Reynell-Zinkin Scales: Developmental Scales for Young
Handicapped Children
♦ Transdiscplinary Play Based Assessment (TPBA)
Cognitive
♦ Bayley Scales of Infant Development-Mental
♦ Functional Emotional Assessment Scales (FEAS)
♦ Infant Toddler Sensory Profile
♦ Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI)
♦ Test of Sensory Functioning in Infants
♦ Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (VABS)
Motor
♦ Alberta Infant Motor Scale
♦ Bayley Scales of Infant Development- Motor
♦ Erhardt Developmental Test of Prehension
♦ Gross Motor Functional Measures (must be used in
combination with a tool that provides age equivalents or
% delay)
♦ Peabody Developmental/ Motor Test 2
♦ Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP)
♦ TIME: Miller
Adaptive
♦ Early Coping Inventory
♦ Functional Emotional Assessment Scales (FEAS)
♦ Functional Independence Measures (WEE FIMS)
♦ Infant Toddler Sensory Profile
♦ Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI)
♦ Test of Sensory Functioning in Infants
♦ Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales
Discipline(s)
A professional with training and
credentials and meeting the
requirements specified by the
particular test instrument
A professional with training and
credentials and meeting the
requirements specified by the
particular test instrument
A professional with training and
credentials and meeting the
requirements specified by the
particular test instrument
A professional with training and
credentials and meeting the
requirements specified by the
particular test instrument
Developmental Area/ Test Name
Communication
♦ Callier-Azusa Scale
♦ Communication & Symbolic Behavior Scales (CSBS)
(must use all 3 portions: Infant Toddler Checklist,
Caregiver Questionnaire, & Behavioral Sample)
♦ Early Language Milestone Scales (ELM-2)
♦ McCarthy Communicative Developmental Inventory
♦ Non-Speech Test
♦ Pre-School Language Scale (PLS 3 or 4)
♦ Receptive Expressive Emergent Language Scale
(REEL)
♦ Reynell Developmental Language Scales-American
Version
♦ Rosetti Infant Toddler Language Scale
♦ Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development
(SICD)
♦ SKI-HI Learning Development Scales (Hearing Impaired
0-3)
Articulation (must be used in combination with one of the
approved communication tools for evaluation & assessment)
♦ Assessment of Phonological Processes-R (English &
Spanish)
♦ Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation
♦ Hodson Phonological Screening
♦ Paden Phonological Screening
♦ Spanish Articulation Measure (SPAM)
Social Emotional
♦ Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist
♦ Carey Temperament Scales (must be used with tool that
provides age equivalents or % delay)
♦ Early Coping Inventory
♦ Functional Emotional Assessment Scale (FEAS)
♦ Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment
(ITSEA)
♦ Temperament & Atypical Behavior Scale (TABS)
♦ Vineland Social Emotional Early Childhood Scale
Hearing
♦ Conditioned Play Audiometry (CPA)
♦ Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE)
♦ Speech Awareness Thresholds (SAT)
♦ Speech Discrimination Test
♦ Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)
Vision
♦ Erhardt Developmental Test of Vision
♦ The Oregon Project Global Assessment Tool
(assessment only)
Discipline(s)
A professional with training and
credentials and meeting the
requirements specified by the
particular test instrument
A professional with training and
credentials and meeting the
requirements specified by the
particular test instrument
A professional with training and
credentials and meeting the
requirements specified by the
particular test instrument
A professional with training and
credentials and meeting the
requirements specified by the
particular test instrument
Developmental Area/ Test Name
Other
♦ Autism Diagnostic Observation Scale (assessment)
Discipline(s)
A professional with training and
credentials and meeting the
requirements specified by the
particular test instrument
NOTE: Providers may use tools that are not identified on this list if the tool meets all of the
following criteria:
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The tool is listed in the Mental Measurement Yearbook Series;
The tool is nationally distributed;
The tool is age appropriate;
The tool has been formally validated;
The tool is individually administered; and
The tool has been approved for use by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and
Family Services (HFS).
It is the responsibility of the provider to present proof of the above criteria to the DHS
Bureau of Early Intervention for HFS review and approval. The Mental Measurement
Yearbook Series can be found at the Early Childhood Intervention Clearinghouse, many
local libraries and by visiting the website at www.unl.edu/buros. There is a cost to
access some of the materials found on this website.
The list of approved tools can also be found on the Early Intervention website(s). All
new tools will be added to this list upon approval of HFS. Do not use a new tool until
you receive notification from the Bureau of EI that the tool submitted for review has
been approved.
Revised 02/15/11