If you have questions or concerns about your child’s speech, walking, dexterity, play behaviors, you can take the Denver II Developmental Screening Test.
It is a known fact that most of the disorders in psychology and psychiatry are caused by problems in childhood. In particular, the 0-6 age group is defined as the critical age. The most widely used test in this period is the Denver II Developmental Screening Test. This test is widely used in neurology, psychiatry and psychology. The Denver II Developmental Screening Test gives us detailed information about 4 main areas of development.
Language development: Experts often say that there is a very close relationship between language development and intelligence. Childhood is the period when the foundations of language development are laid and speech develops the fastest.
Personal Social Development: Personal social development is defined as the child’s self-expression and appropriately revealing his/her identity and personality in society. In the pre-school period, the child experiences very different problems when he enters the foreign environment (kindergarten). and families are immediately alarmed. But it should be known that this problem is a consequence. The seeds for this have been sown before. Denver II undertakes the preventive function in detecting such problems.
Fine and Gross motor development: It includes the abilities we call self-care skills and physical skills. child’s walking, holding, running, climbing stairs, eating, toileting, dressing, etc. It measures whether or not he has acquired skills.
It is very important that you do not wait for your child to have a problem before having the Denver II Developmental Screening Test. Be sure to have this test done once a year.
