Devereux Early Child Assessment (DECA) for Infants and Toddlers

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Instrument Overview

This comprehensive kit contains resources to support the development of infants’ and toddlers’ social and emotional health. The screening and assessment tool focuses on identifying key social and emotional strengths and the planning resources provide caregivers and parents with research-based strategies to promote children’s resilience.

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Organization

Student Well-Being Category

American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.

Content

Grades
< 3 Years,
Pre-Kindergarten
Keywords
Initiative ; attachment/relationships ; self regulation
Respondent
Parent

Administration Information

Length
33 items; 5-10 minutes for paper version and 3-5 minutes for electronic version

Access and Use

Developer
M. Mackrain, P. A., Lebuffe, & G. Powell
Setting
Other