Articles and Abstracts

 Dr. Glascoe and her colleagues have done a great deal of research on PEDS and its accuracy. Below you'll find links to some of the articles.

A Comparison of Objective Standardised Parent-Administered Questionnaires to that of Subjective Screening Practices for the Early Detection of Developmental Delay in At-Risk Infants

Silva, Melinda, Davies, Vic. Johannesburg, South Africa: University of the Witwatersrand, 2010 The Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) and the PEDS C...

Are Overreferrals on Developmental Screening Tests Really a Problem?

Credits: Glascoe, FP. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 2001, 155:54-59.
Background: Developmental screening tests, even those meeting standards for screening test accuracy, produce numerous false-positive results for 15% t...

Assessing Health System Provision of Well-Child Care: The Promoting Healthy Development Survey

Credits: Christina Bethell, Colleen Peck, and Edward Schor

Can Parental Concerns Detect Children With Behavorial Problems?

Credits: Prahbhjot MALHI, Pratibha SINGHI
ABSTRACT: Investigated the usefulness of parents' concerns about a child's behavior in the early detection of significant behavioral disturbances. 60 ...

Can parents' concerns identify children likely to have autism-spectrum disorder?

Credits: Glascoe FP, Macias M, Wegner LM. Robertshaw RS
Below are two abstracts of papers using two screens: PEDS and the Modified Checklist of Autism in Toddlers. An analysis of both is included at the e...

Comparison of the ASQ and PEDS in Screening for Developmental Delay in Children Presenting for Primary Care

Comparison of the ASQ and PEDS in Screening for Developmental Delay in Children Presenting for Primary Care Marjolaine M. Limbos, PhD, David P. Joyc...

Detección precoz de problemas del desarrollo por el pediatría: Importancia de los padres.

Credits: García-Tornel S, Glascoe FP.
 Please see full article by clicking on our translations page.

Documentation Status and Parental Concerns About Development in Young US Children of Mexican Origin

Credits: Alexander N. Ortega, PhDCorresponding Author Informationemail address, Sarah M. Horwitz, PhD, Hai Fang, PhD, Alice A. Kuo, MD, PhD, Steven P. Wallace, PhD, Moira Inkelas, PhD

This study illustrates increased frequency of concerns and developmental-behavioral problems in families with limited access to health care.

Does 'Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS)' at School Entry Predict Language, Achievement and Quality of Life 2 Years Later?

Credits: Melissa Wake; Bibi Gerner; Susan Gallagher
Ambulatory Pediatrics. 2005;5:143-149
OBJECTIVE: We studied the accuracy of the Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) at school entry in predicting academic, language, and h...

Effect of the PEDS Screener and Parent Activation Video on Parent-Physician Communication About Child Development

Credits: L. Sices, A. Keilman, H.L. Kirchner, D. Roberts, T. Stancin.. Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA; Pediatrics, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH.
Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, May 20
BACKGROUND: The AAP recommends periodic administration of standardized developmental screens during well child visits to facilitate identification of ...

Evaluation Rates of Children Identified by Routine Developmental Screening

Credits: Alison Schonwald, Noelle Huntington, Kirsten Witt, Taylor Silver, Joanne Cox.. Division of Developmental Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, May, 2008
BACKGROUND: The AAP recommends routine primary care screening to identify children at risk for developmental concerns. However, there is no published ...

Evidence-based approach to developmental and behavioural surveillance using parents’ concerns

Credits: Glascoe FP
Abstract Half of all children with disabilities are not identified before school entrance, which precludes their participation in early intervention ...

Helping parents understand developmental-behavioral screening

Credits: Marks KP, Glascoe FP.
This is the third in a series of articles in Contemporary Pediatrics devoted to early detection of children with developmental-behavioral problems, th...

How Do Screening Tests Perform in Settings Serving At-risk Populations?

Citation: Glascoe FP, Macias M, Herrera P, Brixey S, Simpson P, Li S. How Do Screening Tests Perform in Settings Serving At-risk Populations?Journal o...

How well do parents' concerns identify children with behavioral and emotional problems

This study was undertaken to determine which parental concerns are most associated with significant behavioral/emotional problems and the extent to wh...

Identifying 4-Month-Old Infants at-Risk in Community Screening

Credits: Meade VA, Sweeney JK, Chandler LS, Woodward BJ. Identifying 4-Month-Old Infants at-Risk in Community Screening. Pediatric Physical Therapy. 2009, 21; 2: 150-157.
Biosketch: Dr. Meade is faculty in the Divison of Diagnostics/Special Education within the Department of Education in Tofol, Kosrae, FSM (Micronesia) ...

Implementation Research

Five abstracts - All were presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Toronto, May 2007. Two are from Dr. Alison Schonwald who has created a helpful website devoted to implementation of screens focusing on all the many issues that need nailing down when starting a screening initiative

Intelligence and achievement of children referred following sexual abuse.

Credits: JJones DA, Trudinger P, Crawford M.
Paediatric Child Health - 2004 Aug;40 (8):455-60
[with comments from Dr. Glascoe]
Jones DA, Trudinger P, Crawford M. Intelligence and achievement of children referred following sexual abuse. J Paediatr Child Health. 2004 Aug;40(8):4...

Interpreting Parents' Concerns About Their Children's Development With “Parents Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS)”: Culture Matters

Kiing, Jennifer S.H.; Low, Poh Sim; Chan, Yiong Huak; Neihart, Maureen. Interpreting Parents' Concerns About Their Children's Development With “...

Making developmental-behavior screening work in your practice

Credits: Complete Reference: Glascoe FP, Schonwald A, Trimm F, Marks K. Making Developmental-Behavioral Screening Work in Your Practice. Contemporary Pediatrics. 2009; 26(12): 38-45.

This article covers the many issues that need to be addressed before deploying quality screening tools in primary care, including why clinicians should screen for developmental-behavioral problems, why informal measures including selected items from the Denver-II don't work, how to chose an accurate screen and what tools are available, how to get staff enthused about screening, implementation planning, and billing/coding for optimal reimbursement.

National Project Implementing Developmental Screening and Referrals

Credits: King TM, Tandon SD, Macias MM, Healy JA, Duncan PM, Swigonski NL, Skipper SM, Lipkin PH. Implementing Developmental Screening and Referrals: Lessons Learned From a National Project.
PEDIATRICS. 2010; 125: 350-360 OBJECTIVES To assess the degree to which a national sample of pediatric practices could implement American Academy of ...

Parenting Behaviors, Perceptions, and Psychosocial Risk: Impacts on Young Children's Development

Credits: Complete Reference: Glascoe FP, Leew S. Parenting Behaviors, Perceptions and Psychosocial Risk: Impact on Child Development. Pediatrics. 2010; 125: 313-319
OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to assess which parenting behaviors, perceptions, and risk factors were associated with optimal versus delayed de...

Parents' evaluation of developmental status in children born with a birthweight of 1250 g or less

Credits: Pritchard MA, Colditz PB, Beller EM
Queensland Optimising Preterm Infant Outcomes Group.
Paediatr Child Health. 2005 Apr;41(4):191-6.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the agreement between parental reporting of development of children born very preterm using the Parents' Evaluation of Develo...

PEDS and ASQ Developmental Screening Tests May Not Identify the Same Children

Credits: Pediatrics 2009;124:e640–e647
Laura Sices, MD, MS, Terry Stancin, PhD, H. Lester Kirchner, PhD,c and Howard Bauchner, MD
OBJECTIVE: In analyzing data from a larger study, we noticed significant disagreement between results of 2 commonly used developmental screening tools ...

PEDS in the Australian day-care setting: Developmental concerns of parents and carers

Coghlan D, Kiing JS, Wake M J Paediatr Child Health 2003 Jan-Feb; 39(1):49-54

PEDS: Developmental Milestones An Accurate Brief Tool for Surveillance and Screening

Credits: Kyle B. Brothers, Frances Page Glascoe and Nicholas S. Robertshaw. Clinical Pediatrics. 2008; 47; 271 - 279
About 16% of children have developmental-behavioral disabilities but less than one-third of the children are detected by their health care providers, ...

Prevalence of Developmental and Behavioral Disorders in a Pediatric Hospital

Credits: Mario Cesar Petersen, MD, MPH, David Arnold Kube, MD, Toni M. Whitaker, MD, Joyce Carolyn Graff, RN, PhD, and Frederick B. Palmer, MD
Prevalence of Developmental and Behavioral Disorders in a Pediatric Hospital
Mario Cesar Petersen, MD, MPH, David Arnold Kube, MD, Toni M. Whitaker, MD, Joyce Carolyn Graff, RN, PhD, and Frederick B. Palmer, MD
PEDIATRICS Vol. 123 No. 3 March 2009, pp. e490-e495 (doi:10.1542/peds.2008-2750) OBJECTIVE. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalenc...

Role of Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status in detecting developmental delay in young children

Credits: Prahbhjot MALHI1, Pratibha SINGHI1
Indian Pediatrics 2002; 39:271-275
[with comments and response from Dr. Glascoe]
The importance of early identification of children with developmental delay has emerged in recent years as a matter of growing concern among pediatric...

Routine Developmental Screening Implemented in Urban Primary Care

Credits: PEDIATRICS Vol. 123 No. 2 February 2009, pp. 660-668 (doi:10.1542/peds.
Alison Schonwald, MDa,b,c, Noelle Huntington, PhDa,b,c, Eugenia Chan, MD, MPHa,b,c, Wanessa Risko, MD, DScb,c and Carolyn Bridgemohan, MDa,c

Using the Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status in 2 urban pediatric practices.

SCREENING DEVELOPMENTAL DOMAINS IN PRETERM CHILDREN: DIAGNOSTIC VALIDITY OF “PARENTS’ EVALUATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL STATUS: DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES” (PEDS:DM) ASSESSMENT LEVEL

Pritchard MA,1,2 deDassal T,1 Johnston L,3 Beller E,4 Bogossian F1, Callan S,1 Crothers C,1,2 Hovey D,1,2 Russo S,5 Cartwright D.1 1WNS., RBWH.,2UQ., ...

Screening Strategies for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Pediatric Primary Care

Credits: Pinto-Martin J. et al, JDBP, 2008; 29(5) 345 – 350 (followed by a published letter to the editor and quoted below from Glascoe FP and Squires J, JDBP 2009; 30, 174).
Pinto-Martin et al’s study of whether a broad-band developmental screen, i.e., “Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status” (PEDS), detects children ...

Study Report: Screening for developmental problems among preschool-aged children.

The Community Perinatal Care (CPC) Study was initiated by the Conception to Age Five Working Group of The Calgary Children’s Initiative. The working g...

The importance of discussing parents' concerns about development: Do Parents Express Concerns Spontaneously?

Credits: Glascoe FP - Ambulatory Child Health, 1997;2:349-356.
 It is the recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on the Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health1 and the authors...

Three studies from the Philippines

Credits: C. Palaraca
R Matibag, J Navarro
THE ROLE OF PARENTS’ EVALUATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL STATUS (PEDS) AS A SCREENING TOOL IN THE EARLY DETECTION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND BEHA...

Toward a Model for An Evidenced-Based Approach to Developmental/Behavioral Surveillance, Promotion and Patient Education.

Credits: Glascoe FP
Ambulatory Child Health, 1999, 5; 197-208
ABSTRACT Objective. To propose and preliminarily assess a model for helping providers select, based on empirical evidence, the optimal in-office deve...

Use of “Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) in Population Surveys

Credits: a collection of research by various authors

Several abstracts (some submitted for publication, others previously published) using the Survey Edition of PEDS. Survey PEDS differs from (clinical) PEDS in that it eliminates all open-ended questions and includes several others questions that encourage parents to indicate concerns about their child’s global developmental-behavioral status, vision, hearing, and health.

Validity of parents’ evaluation of developmental status (PEDS) in detecting developmental disorders in 3-12 month old infants

Credits: I Wayan Gustawan, Soetjiningsih, Soeroyo Machfudz
Udayana University, Sanglah Hospital, Jalan Nias, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
Abstract Background: Every disorder in any developmental stage will result in alteration of the quality of human resources in the future. Early detec...

What Parent Concerns Are Predictive for Failed Critical Items on the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers?

Credits: Kimberly A. Twyman, Michelle M. Macias, Frances Page Glascoe
Ambulatory Pediatrics. 2005;5:143-149
Kimberly A. Twyman, Michelle M. Macias, Frances Page Glascoe.. Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charlest...
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How to Reference PEDS and PEDS:DM

When citing PEDS Tools, their psychometric support, or the content of this website in your articles, abstracts and other writings please use the following:

To cite PEDS Tools:

Glascoe FP. Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS). Nolensville, TN: PEDSTest.com, LLC. 2010. (www.pedstest.com)

Glascoe FP, Robertshaw NS. PEDS: Developmental Milestones. (PEDS:DM). Nolensville, TN: PEDSTest.com, LLC .2008 (www.pedstest.com)

Glascoe FP, Camp M, Robertshaw NS. PEDS Online. Nolensville, TN: PEDSTest.com, LLC. 2011 (www.pedstest.com/online)

To cite content on this website, (www.pedstest.com):

Glascoe FP, PEDStest.com. Nolensville, TN: PEDSTest.com, LLC. 2011 (www.pedstest.com)


 To cite psychometric and research support for PEDS Tools:

Glascoe FP. Collaborating with Parents: Using Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) to Detect and Address Developmental and Behavioral Problems. Nolensville, TN: PEDSTest.com, LLC. 2002. (www.pedstest.com)

Glascoe FP, Robertshaw NS. PEDS: Developmental Milestones. (PEDS:DM): A tool for Surveillance and Screening, Professionals' Manual. Nolensville, TN: PEDSTest.com,LLC. 2008. (www.pedstest.com)


Dr. Glascoe and her colleagues have done a great deal of research on PEDS and its accuracy. On our research pages you'll find abstracts and links to most articles. We are happy to post new publications so please use the "contact us" link send abstracts or complete papers and we'll be happy to add those.