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Enhance the growth and development of infants and young children with more than 400 fun, fast, and easy-to-use learning activities-now in a new edition specially developed to complement ASQ-3 (TM). Perfect for sharing with parents of children who are developing typically or need non-intensive support in one or more developmental areas, these playful, developmentally appropriate activities. Encourage progress in the same five developmental areas as ASQ-3 (TM)-communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving, and personal-social. Use safe, age-appropriate materials that most families have at home. Help even the youngest children develop crucial early language and literacy skills. Promote closer parent-child interactions. Serve as a natural follow-up for children who score in the ASQ-3 (TM) monitoring zone. Now packaged as a book and CD-ROM together so you can photocopy or print them as needed, these creative, cost-effective activities are the perfect way for parents and children to learn and have fun together.

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The new activity sheets are great! They allow the provider and family to really focus on what the child needs. I love the blank space at the bottom to write a quick reminder note . . . it will be great for follow-up instructions that are so frequently forgotten. --Mindy Craig, M.S., PA-C ABCD Project Coordinator, Colorado (09/24/2012) A wonderful resource . . . parents will have concrete activities to complete weekly in all domains to enhance their child's developmental skills. --Deborah M. Gallagher, M.Ed. Early Head Start Director, Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center, Inc. (06/25/2012) An excellent first screening tool for our population . . . It is a functional tool for our classroom staff, as it is easy to individualize for children by age and domain. --Daniel Stowe Inclusion Specialist, Redlands Christian Migrant Association (06/07/2012) We hand out the ASQ-3 Learning Activities at all of our well child checks . . . [They] provide fun activities that help parents teach problem solving and fine and gross motor skills that are often missing from their everyday interactions, usually using materials they already have at home! --Deneta Sells, MD Intown Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, P.C. (08/02/2013) A boon to our outreach programs. We have been especially satisfied using the activities with families as a part of our concerning ASQ result follow-up. It serves as a great general parent education tool as well. --Lizzie Sexton, M.A.

An excellent first screening tool for our population . . . It is a functional tool for our classroom staff, as it is easy to individualize for children by age and domain. --Daniel Stowe Inclusion Specialist, Redlands Christian Migrant Association (06/07/2012)

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For more than 20 years, Ms. Twombly has been involved in Ages & Stages Questionnaires(R) (ASQ(R)) research projects, including renorming for the Ages & Stages Questionnaires(R) Social Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ(R) SE-2;), and the Ages & Stages Questionnaires(R), Third Edition (ASQ(R)-3; Squires & Bricker; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2009). She has conducted trainings on ASQ and ASQ: SE nationally and internationally and has provided technical assistance to states on the development of early identification and referral systems for young children. Ms. Twombly is a contributing author of ASQ-3 and an author of ASQ: SE-2, ASQ-3 Learning Activities, and ASQ: SE-2 Learning Activities & More. Ms.Twombly's areas of interest and research include systems of care for substance-exposed newborns, infant mental health, family-guided early intervention, and the use of standardized screening tools in diverse health, educational and social services settings. She currently is working on a team to develop a universal system of screening and referral for families with young children in the state of Oregon. Ginger Fink, M.A., has worked in the field of early childhood education for more than 30 years. She served as the training coordinator for ASQ(R) at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Ms. Fink has worked in many capacities. Currently, she is a private consultant in the area of parent-child programs and teacher education strategies, and she teaches early childhood courses at Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, Oregon. She has worked as curriculum developer toward the development of a statewide series of community-based parent-child programs in Honolulu, Hawaii, as a teacher and program director with Head Start programs, and as a disabilities specialist for the Region X training and technical assistance network.

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