Developmental Screening Toolkit

Welcome to Docs for Tots’ Developmental Screening Toolkit! The goal of this toolkit is to help healthcare practices implement standardized developmental screening into their workflow. The steps you see here are a result of applied quality improvement science, and real-life trial-and-error from work in federally qualified health centers in Nassau County, New York from 2014-2016. Click on each step to the right to see instructions, tips, and useful materials.

Docs for Tots’ experience has illuminated Seven Steps to Screening:

• Step 1 – Decide to Screen: Make the case for screening in your practice
• Step 2 – Form Your Team and Maintain a QI Approach: Assemble the team to put your plan into action
• Step 3 – Choose a Quality Screen: Decide which screen is best for your patient population
• Step 4 – Map Out Flow and Integrate Screening: Determine how to most easily incorporate screening into your workflow
• Step 5 – Prepare Referral Process: Plan where to send families with positive screens
• Step 6 – Prepare Parent Education and Community Connections: Use freely available resources to promote child development
• Step 7 – Implement and Evaluate: Start to screen and improve the process as needed