ASQs (Ages and Stages Questionnaires)

Your health visiting team will send you a questionnaire, known as the “Ages and Stages Questionnaire” or ASQ-3, to fill in before your child’s 9 to 12-month and 2-year development reviews.

Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQs) help you and our staff understand how your child is developing, they are just one of the tools we may use during our contact with you – but of course most important of all is what you tell us about your child.

The ASQs are not a measure of how well your child is or isn’t doing, as we know all children develop differently. They are something that we use together to talk about the things your child does easily, to think about any concerns you might have and how we can support you and your child with those.

They are split into 5 different areas:

• Communication: Your child’s language skills, both what your child understands and what he or she can say – this can be sounds, babbling or talking.
• Gross Motor: How your child uses their arms and legs for sitting, crawling, walking, running, and other activities.
• Fine Motor: How your child uses their hands and fingers – for example scribbling or picking up food.
• Problem Solving: How your child plays with toys and solves problems.
• Personal-Social: Your child’s self-help skills and how they play and interact with others.

The ASQ that is used is based on the age of your child.

For each question, you’ll be asked to choose between ‘yes’, ‘sometimes’ and ‘not yet’, based on what your child is able to do at that point in time. We suggest you fill it in a few days before the appointment. To answer each question you can try fun and simple activities with your child. Each question focuses on activities that encourage your child to play, move around and practice day-to-day skills.

You will be sent the questionnaire before your appointment with us. Please bring the completed questionnaire to your appointment.

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