Denver Developmental Screening Test Paper

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The Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST II) was developed in 1969 at the University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, USA. It was then revised in 1992 to the DSST II. The DDST II test assess children ages 2-71 months. It consists of 125 items and is divided in four parts, including, social/personal, fine motor function, language and gross motor function. It compares the child development with that of over 2,000 children. The test takes about 20 minutes to administer and interpret, and is based mostly on the examiner’s observation (Tidy, 2014). A research was done by (Azari, Kazemnejad, Shahshahani, Sajedi & Vameghi, 2010) to test the validity and reliability of DDST II, the test was performed on 221 children 0-6 years in four health