Social-Equivalent Assessment/Evaluation Measure (SEAM), Research Edition / Edition 1

by Jane Squires, Diane Bricker, Misti Waddell

Overview

With this in-depth, easy-to-use tool, your program can reliably assess and monitor social-emotional development in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers at risk for delays or challenges. An ideal followup to screeners such as ASQ:SE, the two-part SEAM™ assessment reveals detailed qualitative information on children’s social-emotional competence— and identifies their caregivers’ strengths and areas of need. Easy to learn and implement, SEAM™ can be used by a wide variety of early childhood professionals, including those with little or no training in mental-health or behavioral interventions.

SEAM™ helps your program:

• support development of important social-emotional skills in order to minimize challenging behaviors
• build strong, proactive partnerships with families
• promote positive parent–child interactions in the critical first years of life
• assist with developing developmentally appropriate goals and intervention activities
• monitor child progress toward social-emotional goals
  

SEAM™ is a two-part assessment:

SEAM™ Tool

The main SEAM™ includes three intervals with different developmental ranges: Infant (2–18 months), Toddler (18–36 months), and Preschool (36–66 months). Each interval assesses 10 child benchmarks critical to social-emotional competence, including empathy, adaptive skills, self-image, emotional responses, and healthy interactions with others.

SEAM™ is flexible enough to meet your specific needs—parents/caregivers can complete it independently, or you can conduct it jointly with them if they need extra guidance. The SEAM™ system also includes SEAM™ with Ages, an alternate version of the tool annotated with a helpful list of age ranges for each item. This version makes it easy to give caregivers general guidance on how social-emotional skills typically develop and where their child’s development fits on the continuum.

SEAM™ Family Profile

The Family Profile assesses parent and caregiver strengths and helps identify areas in which they need more supports and resources to foster their child’s social-emotional skills. Like the main SEAM™, the Family Profile assessment includes three intervals—Infant, Toddler, and Preschool. Each interval measures four benchmarks key to a nurturing home environment: responding to needs, providing activities and play, providing predictable routines and an appropriate environment, and ensuring home safety.

List of SEAM™ benchmarks

1. Child participates in healthy interactions
2. Child expresses a range of emotions
3. Child regulates social-emotional responses
4. Child begins to show empathy for others
5. Child attends to and engages with others
6. Child explores hands and feet and surroundings (for infants)/demonstrates independence (for toddlers/preschoolers
7. Child displays a positive self-image
8. Child regulates activity level
9. Child cooperates with daily routines and requests
10. Child shows a range of adaptive skills
    

See which domain of school readiness in the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework this tool addresses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598572803
Publisher:	Brookes, Paul H. Publishing Company
Publication date:	05/01/2014
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	46
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.30(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Dr. Bricker is the former director of the Early Intervention Program at the University of Oregon and a key developer of the ASQ and AEPS® systems. She has focused her professional career on the development and study of assessment systems and intervention approaches for young children with disabilities and those at risk for developing disabilities.

Dr. Bricker has been instrumental in the development of graduate-level personnel preparation programs that have produced professionals who are delivering quality services to thousands of young children and their families. She has published extensively in the field of early intervention.

Dr. Clifford is on the faculty at the University of Oregon Early Intervention Program, where she teaches graduate courses in early intervention and early childhood special education. In addition to teaching at the university level, Dr. Clifford provides training internationally on the Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: A Parent-Completed Child Monitoring System, Third Edition (Squires & Bricker; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2009), and the Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: Social-Emotional (Squires, Bricker & Twombly; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2002). Her professional interests include personnel preparation and the development and evaluation of early childhood assessment measures. Prior to the pursuit of her doctoral degree, Dr. Clifford served as an early childhood educator for 8 years.

Kristin Funk, MA, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Senior Research Assistant and Project Coordinator in the University of Oregon’s Early Intervention Program. Kris has worked on and coordinated several community-based and systems-change grants, including Project SEAM: Preventing Behavior Disorders and Improving Social–Emotional Competence in Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities, a five-year research project to conduct psychometric studies for validation of the Social–Emotional Assessment Measure™ (SEAM). Kris has conducted extensive training with early childhood teachers and parents in implementing social emotional curriculum and developmental and social emotional screening, assessment and intervention, including the Assessment, Evaluation and Programming System™ (AEPS) and the Ages & Stages Questionnaires™ (ASQ-3) and Ages & Stages Questionnaires: Social Emotional™ (ASQ:SE).

Mr. Hoselton received a B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Oregon in 2004. He has been involved with several research studies on the Ages & Stages Questionnaires® (ASQ): A Parent-Completed Child Monitoring System, Third Edition (with J. Squires; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2009) and the Social-Emotional Assessment/Evaluation Measure (SEAM™). His most important contributions include data collection and analysis for technical reports. Mr. Hoselton designed and developed web applications used for national ASQ and SEAM data collection.

Dr. Squires has served as principal investigator on research studies at the University of Oregon on the ASQ system. She is a professor in special education, focusing on early intervention and early childhood special education. She directs the Early Intervention Program and is associate director of the University of Oregon Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.

Dr. Squires has directed national outreach training activities related to developmental screening and the involvement of parents in the assessment and monitoring of their child's development. She currently directs research grants related to early childhood mental health and systems change related to early identification and treatment of newborn infants exposed prenatally to drugs and alcohol. In addition to her interests in screening and early identification, Dr. Squires directs the doctoral and master's level early intervention/special ed

Read an Excerpt

Download a sample SEAM form
Preschool for developmental range 36–66 months

Download a sample SEAM Family Profile
Family Profile Preschool for developmental range 36–66 months

Table of Contents

Contents of the Book
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Dedication

1. Introduction to the SEAM
   
2. SEAM
   
3. SEAM with Ages
   
4. SEAM Family Profile
   
5. Summarizing SEAM Information
   
6. Scenario: Completing the SEAM and the SEAM with Ages
   
7. Technical Report
   

References
Appendix A: Benchmarks and Items for SEAM and SEAM with Ages
Appendix B: Benchmarks and Items for SEAM Family Profile
Index

Contents of the CD-ROM
About This CD-ROM
End User License Agreement

SEAM
SEAM Infant Interval
SEAM Etapa inicial para niños
SEAM Toddler Interval
SEAM Segunda etapa para niños
SEAM Preschool Interval
SEAM Etapa preescolar para niños
SEAM with Ages
SEAM with Ages Infant Interval
SEAM Etapa inicial para profesionales
SEAM with Ages Toddler Interval
SEAM Segunda etapa para profesionales
SEAM with Ages Preschool Interval
SEAM Etapa preescolar para profesionales
SEAM Family Profile
SEAM Family Profile Infant Interval
SEAM Etapa inicial para familias
SEAM Family Profile Toddler Interval
SEAM Segunda Etapa para familias
SEAM Family Profile Preschool Interval
SEAM Etapa preescolar para familias
SEAM Summary Forms
Infant SEAM Summary Form
Infant SEAM Summary Form (Spanish)
Toddler SEAM Summary Form
Toddler SEAM Summary Form (Spanish)
Preschool SEAM Summary Form
Preschool SEAM Summary Form (Spanish)

Editorial Reviews

“A wonderful tool for caregivers and professionals to use to identify a child’s developmental strengths and focus areas, in order to best support the family.

Tracey Sparrow