EARLY CHILDHOOD INVENTORY
EARLY CHILDHOOD INVENTORY - 4 (ECI-4)
Ages 3 to 5 Years By Joyce Sprafkin, Ph.D. and Kenneth D. Gadow, Ph.D
The Early Childhood Inventory-4 (ECI-4) is a behavior rating scale that screens for DSM-IV emotional and
behavioral disorders in children
between 3 and 5 years old. The ECI-4: Parent Checklist contains 108 items that screen for 15 emotional
and behavioral disorders, and the
ECI-4: Teacher Checklist contains 87 items that screen for 13 emotional and behavioral disorders. The
ECI-4 can be scored to derive
Symptom Count scores (diagnostic model) or Symptom Severity scores (normative data model). Scoring is
quick and easy with user-friendly
score sheets.
DISORDERS INCLUDED: *AD/HD *Oppositional Defiant Disorder *Conduct Disorder *Generalized
Anxiety Disorder *Social Phobia
*Separation Anxiety Disorder *Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder *Specific Phobia *Selective Mutism
*Major Depressive Disorder
*Dysthymic Disorder *Reactive Attachment Disorder *Pervasive Developmental Disorder *Asperger's
Disorder *Motor Tics *Vocal Tics
*Posttraumatic Stress Disorder *Problems in Eating, Sleeping, Elimination
RESEARCH: ECI-4 scores demonstrate satisfactory test-retest reliability, show a high degree of
correspondence with psychiatric diagnosis
(predictive validity), and correlate well with other commonly used dimensional scales (concurrent validity).
The norm sample for the Parent
Checklist (N=531) and the Teacher Checklist (N=398) consisted of children between 3 and 5 years old who
attended day care, preschool, and
Head Start programs. T scores and raw scores for males and females are presented separately on Symptom
Severity Profile score sheets.
PRODUCT INFORMATION: The ECI-4 Screening Manual is a 117-page book that reviews diagnostic
criteria and describes research,
scoring guidelines, and clinical applications for Symptom Count scores. The ECI-4 Norms Manual is a
184-page book that presents normative
data and describes research, scoring guidelines, and clinical applications for Symptom Severity scores. The
ECI-4 Deluxe Kit contains the
Screening Manual, the Norms Manual, 25 Parent Checklists, 25 Teacher Checklists, 50 Symptom Count
score sheets (with scoring
instructions, cutoff scores, and rule out diagnoses), and 50 Symptom Severity Profile (T scores) score
sheets for both Parent and Teacher
Checklists.
ECI-DK
ECI-4 Deluxe Kit
$102.00
ECI-SM
ECI-4 Screening Manual
$22.00
ECI-NM
ECI-4 Norms Manual
$22.00
ECI-P50
Parent Checklist (pkg. 50)
$52.00
ECI-T50
Teacher Checklist (pkg. 50)
$38.00
ECI-PSS
Symptom Severity Profiles for Parent
Checklist (pkg. 50)
$13.00
ECI-TSS
Symptom Severity Profiles for Teacher
Checklist (pkg. 50)
$13.00