IDA-2 News
IDA Presentation at Zero To Three Annual Conference in Denver
“Best Practice Developmental Assessment of Infants and Toddlers; the Test of Time” focused on the increasing numbers of young children identified as being at risk for developmental and behavioral vulnerabilities through routine developmental surveillance and screening and what we have learned over the decades about best practice...
IDA2 Featured on NPR
The IDA-2 co-author Susan Vater led the MLDA design and development and the IDA-2 is the featured developmental assessment process and measure used in the MLDA. IDA-2 is also used in a range of agencies and services including B-3 Early Intervention/ Part C in many states, Early Head Start, home visiting programs, primary health care centers...
Childhood Trauma Exposure
In almost every early care and education (ECE) program across the country, there are children who have experienced trauma or who will, during their early childhood, experience traumatic events. Trauma in early childhood takes many forms, including abuse or neglect, witnessing violence, and having prolonged separation from or loss of a parent. An extensive body of research has documented the negative impacts of trauma on young children’s behavior, learning, and other long-term school- and health-related outcomes.
Best Practice for Developmental Assessment
The new Infant-Toddler Developmental Assessment–Second Edition (IDA-2) is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, family-centered assessment to identify children birth to 3 years of age who are developmentally at risk.
Effects of Trauma in Early Childhood
Recent research findings that childhood trauma affects health in young children and throughout life into adulthood. In her TED talk, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris discusses this issue.
OSEP and Early Head Start Child Outcomes
We welcome the opportunities to talk with leaders and staff about the required Outcomes reporting in Part C/IDEA and Early Head Start and remind IDA users that the IDA Meets all federal requirements...
The IDA at National Zero to Three
Zero to Three, the pioneering organization in the field of child development has now decided to begin promoting the IDA as a best-practice model of early childhood assessment.