ABSTRACT
Throughout a child’s early years, reliable monitoring of developmental milestones is
necessary to identify global delay or a specific delay in areas such as receptive language,
expressive language, social skills, and fine or gross motor functioning. The goal of early
developmental screening is to identify problems at the earliest stage of development,
when treatment is more effective (Frankenburg, 1994). Additionally, developmental
screening is used to monitor progress, detect changes in developmental rate, or identify a
loss of skills over time.
