Developmental Programming for Infants and Young Children

The Early Intervention Developmental Profile (EIDP)

What is the EIDP?

• Developmental assessment for children from birth to 36 months

• An assessment designed for a team to use in planning intervention

• Not specifically diagnostic, but provides a range of development

Who Developed the EIDP?

• An interdisciplinary team including OT, PT, SLP, Psychologist, and Social Worker.

• Team was based at University of Michigan’s Institute for Study of Mental Retardation and Related Disabilities (ISMRRD Profile)

Purpose

• To identify strengths and weaknesses• Provide a developmental range• Identify emerging skills• Provides for periodic re-assessment• Bridge gap between assessment and

intervention

Format

• Parent-therapist collaboration in play based, informal assessment environment

• Train across disciplines so one professional can administer, score, and interpret findings with consultation from the key professional

Design

• Each of six domains reflects current developmental theory.

• Each of the items (299)within each domain were selected with careful analysis

Criteria for Item Selection: Validation of the Scales

FIRST: The item for inclusion must have appeared in 2 recognized scalesOR: it could be an original item if the construct to be assessed did not exist in another recognized scale

Criteria for Item Selection

• Each item reviewed by project staff member most knowledgeable

• Items selected had to represent all aspects of development (e.g. Language)

• Items selected needed to represent the developmental accomplishments for that range of development

Age Norms

• Not standardized

• Strong construct validity

• Criterion referenced

Reliability

• Interrater: Page 3 in Volume 1

• Range from .80 to .97

Administration

1. Determine Chronological Age: In Months

09 10 1207 10 25

42

1 11 17

2108

1 YEAR 11 months 17 days=24 months

CORRECTED AGE: FOR PREMATURITY

Administration

• Begin with interacting with child and parent

• What are we looking for in the front end?

Administration

• Proceed with Perceptual Fine Motor Scale

• Use the 1” cube item in the child’s age range OR in range you feel is closer to ability

F

P

Continue within this age range in P/FM

Then proceed to Cognition, Language, Gross Motor (much of the Self Care and Social Emotional items from parent/caregiver

report but also will observe some behaviors as well.

When Do I Stop Administration..…

• First: Establish Basal: the age range preceding the child’s earliest failure

• Second: Establish Ceiling: the age range containing the child’s highest passed item.

Basal

• From the first passed 1 “ cube item, continue with progressively EASIER items until:

– Passes 6 consecutive items OR– Passes all items in two consecutive age

ranges

Ceiling

• More difficult items from the initial passed item until child has failed

1. Six consecutive items2. Two age ranges

P

P

P

P

P

PP

P

P

PP

F

FF

F

F

F

Ceiling

Basal

Hernandez

C.A. 8 months

How do we get the Developmental Age?

• There is no D.A. in this assessment

• There is a Developmental Range

• The highest number of a sequence of passes, plot that on the profile graph

Sample Profile Graph

Pass or Fail……

• Pass (P): Criteria is met

• Fail (F): Criteria is not met

• Pass/Fail: (PF): Emerging skill

• O Ommitted

Important!

• Read Volume 1

• Review Volume 2

• Ask Questions!..Seek Clarification

• Seek out experience!