Developmental & Literacy Screenings
Ages 3-5
Arizona Literacy & Learning Center is dedicated to identifying early developmental delays and providing appropriate referrals to professionals when necessary. Our dedicated team of professionals and volunteers receive extensive training in order to provide complete and accurate information about how your child is performing when measured against their peers.
Using the Developmental Indicators for The Assessment of Learning, 3rd Edition (DIAL-3) ALLC provides bilingual comprehensive developmental/literacy screenings for children ages 3-5. Children are screened in the areas of:
- Motor Area: Gross Motor items include catching, jumping, hopping, and skipping. Fine Motor items include building with blocks, cutting, copying shapes and letters, and writing, and a finger-touching task.
- Language Area: Items include answering simple personal questions (name, age, gender), articulation (how understandable their words are to others), naming or identifying objects and actions, plus phonemic awareness tasks such as rhyming and I Spy.
- Concepts Area: Items include pointing to named body parts, naming or identifying colors, rote counting, counting blocks, placing a block in named positions relative to a little house, identifying concepts in a triad of pictures, and sorting shapes and naming colors.
- Self-Help Development: Looks at the child's development of personal care skills related to dressing, eating, and grooming.
- Social Development: Looks at the child's development of social skills with other children and parents, including rule compliance, sharing, self-control, and empathy.
- We include vision and hearing screenings as well.
- Children four years of age and older will be administered the Get Ready to Read screening which is a tool for pre-reading and writing skills.
There is no cost for this service.
This is a screening and not an actual diagnosis. Children receive one of three “scores” from the screening.
Pass: Your child performed at a level consistent with their same-aged peers.
Monitor: Some areas of concern were noted, but issues are not severe enough to warrant a referral to a service provider. We will make some recommendations about some things you can do to work with your child. You may want to bring your child back in 6 months for a follow-up screening.
Refer: Delays in one or more areas are significant enough we think your child would benefit from a referral to a service provider. We will provide you with a referral list. We recommend your child return in 6 months for a follow-up screening. We will follow up with you to be sure you were able to access services for your child.
Re-screening of any area is available at ALLC at no charge.
Please call us at 602-212-1089 to schedule an appointment or go to our calendar page to see when the next free community screening is.
Permission forms will be provided to parent(s)/legal guardian(s) prior to screening the child. The form must be completed and signed before we can screen your child.