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Peer reviewedDodge, Gordon R. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1980
Four hundred eighty-six preschool children were screened with the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) and the Preschool Language Scale (PLS). Children who failed the screening were referred for a formal language assessment. Results indicated that the DDST is slightly more effective than the PLS in identifying preschool children who need…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Exceptional Child Research, Language Handicaps, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedTeska, James A.; Stoneburner, Robert L. – Psychology in the Schools, 1980
Results demonstrate that the second-level screening procedure is an effective method for ferreting out children in need of full-scale psychological evaluation to determine areas of handicapping condition and generation of appropriate services. (Author)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis, Followup Studies
Peer reviewedSolomons, Hope C. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1982
Standardization of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) on 288 babies raning in age from two to 54 weeks in Yucatan, Mexico, yielded such findings as that subtest scores increased with age, and that the DDST failed to identify a "questionable" 16 or 17 babies with borderline scores on the Bayley Motor Scale. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Identification, Foreign Countries
