PILOT TESTING, REFINEMENT, AND VALIDATING OF THE NBT, AND PREPARATION FOR NORMING STUDY

有各种各样的早期发育评估或筛查工具。 标准化、可靠的评估工具(例如马伦早期学习量表、Brigance 早期发育清单、巴特尔发育清单等)允许直接评估 婴儿/儿童行为，但它们时间密集，购买昂贵，要求很高 训练有素的行政人员、计分人员和口译人员，经常依赖过时的规范。 NIH婴幼儿工具箱(又名“NIH Baby工具箱”[NBT])的目的是开发 和全国标准化的易于管理、评分和解释的婴幼儿评估 关于认知、社会功能、语言(接受性和表现性)、算术、 儿童研究和临床使用的自我调节、执行功能和运动功能 1个月至42个月的儿童将包括直接的儿童评估 (首选测量)，根据需要由父母/法定监护人报告补充。

There is a wide range of early developmental assessment or screening instruments. Standardized, reliable assessment instruments (e.g., Mullen Scales of Early Learning, Brigance Inventory of Early Development, Battelle Developmental Inventory, etc.) allow for direct evaluation of infant/child behaviors but they are time intensive, expensive to purchase, require highly trained personnel for administration, scoring, and interpreting, and often rely on outdated norms. The purpose of the NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox (aka the “NIH Baby Toolbox” [NBT]) is to develop and nationally norm an easy to administer, score, and interpret infant and toddler assessment inventory of cognition, social functioning, language (receptive and expressive), numeracy, self-regulation, executive function, and motor function for research and clinical use in children between 1- to 42-months of age that will include direct child assessment (preferred measurement), supplemented as needed by parental/ legal guardian report.