The Efficiency of the Denver Developmental Screening Test with Rural Disadvantaged

The purpose of the study was to investigate the efficiency of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) on a rural disadvantaged preschool population. Several study samples were selected from a large group (1,061) of children who were evaluated in a prospective longitudinal fashion over 3 years. The study presents descriptive outcome statistics on the (1,018) children who completed the DDST, examines the relationship between screening outcome on the DDST and individually administered intellectual measures (SB-LM or WPPS1) on a sample of 555 children, and evaluates the test-retest reliability of the DDST on a selected sample of 106 subjects. KEY WORDS: Denver Developmental Screening Test; preschool screening; rural children. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficiency of a widely used preschool screening instrument, the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST), on a rural disadvantaged preschool population. To accomplish this goal, several study samples were selected from a larger group (1,061) of children who were evaluated in a prospective longitudinal fashion. The study provides specific outcome and correlational data on a rural preschool population utilizing the DDST, which has not been described previously in 'Support for this study was made available through Maternal and Child Health grant no. MCR-190334-030. Portions of this study were presented at the American Psychologica