MAKE READY THE NIH BABY TOOLBOX FOR END USERS: FINALIZE ALL PARTICIPANT-LEVEL DATA COLLECTION, ANALYSES, AND DISSEMINATION

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，Bayley婴幼儿发展量表、马伦早期学习量表、Brilliant早期发展量表、Battelle发展量表等）允许 直接评估婴儿/儿童的行为，但它们是时间密集型的，购买昂贵，需要训练有素的人员进行管理，评分和解释，并且经常依赖于过时的规范。 美国国立卫生研究院婴儿研究所（NIH婴儿和幼儿研究所）的目的 “是发展和全国规范一个易于管理，评分和解释婴儿和幼儿的认知，社会功能，语言，（接受和表达）、计算能力、自我调节、执行功能和运动功能，用于1至42个月大的儿童的研究和临床使用，包括直接儿童评估（首选测量），根据需要补充父母/法律的监护人报告。 该合同旨在支持完成所有参与者级别的数据收集，分析和传播，并完成NIH Baby Rolling应用程序/工具，供研究和临床科学家最终用户使用。

There is a wide range of early developmental assessment or screening instruments. Standardized, reliable assessment instruments (e.g., Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, 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to purchase, require highly trained personnel for administration, scoring, and interpreting, and often rely on outdated norms.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 Baby Toolbox” [NBT]) (previously known as the NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox) “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. This contract is to support finalize all participant-level data collection, analyses, and dissemination, and to complete the NIH Baby Toolbox app/tool ready for use by research and clinical scientist end users.