• General Screening
• Developmental Screening
• Hearing Screening
• Vision Screening
• Newborn Screening
• Newborn Screening Task Force Report

General Screening
Fact Sheets

• Integrating Screening and the Medical Home

Newsletters

• AAP Developmental and Behavioral News: Early Detection Special Issue ; Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. 2007; 16(2)

Policy Statements

• American Academy of Pediatrics; Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine. AAP Periodicity Schedule: Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care. Pediatrics. 2000;105(3):645-646
• American Academy of Pediatrics; Committee on Children with Disabilities Pediatrician's Role in the Diagnosis and Management of Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Children | Technical Report. Pediatrics. 2001

• Children's Health Under Medicaid: A National Review of Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment - 1999-2003. National Health Law Program; 2005

Developmental Screening

• MCH Library for Developmental Screening Bibliography
  Bibliography includes selected materials published primarily in 1998 or later; some are written for health professionals and some for parents. The bibliographies focus on publications from federal and state agencies, from grantees of federal and state agencies, and from professional and voluntary organizations.
• Bibliography of Practices Implementing Developmental Screening
• Bergman D. Screening for Behavioral Developmental Problems: Issues, Obstacles, and Opportunities for Change. Portland, ME: National Academy for State Health Policy; August 2004
• Berry C, Butler P, Perloff L, Budetti P. Child Development Services in Medicaid Managed Care Organizations: What Does It Take?. Pediatrics. Jul 2000;106:191-198
• Bethell C, Peck Reuland CH, Halfon N, Schor EL. Measuring the Quality of Preventive and Developmental Services for Young Children: National Estimates and Patterns of Clinicians’ Performance. Pediatrics. Jun 2004;113:1973-1983
• Bornstein MH, Cote LR. "Who Is Sitting Across From Me?" Immigrant Mothers’ Knowledge of Parenting and Children’s Development. Pediatrics. Nov 2004;114:e557-e564
• Cises, Laura. Developmental Screening in Primary Care: The Effectiveness of Current Practice and Recommendations for Improvement. Commonwealth Fund. Dec 2007; 1082.
• Halfon N, Regalado M, Sareen H, Inkwells M, Peck Ireland CH, Glace FP, Olson LM. Assessing Development in the Pediatric Office. Pediatrics. Jung 2004;113:1926-1933
• Kara Basin T, Brocks en S, Non kin Ache R, Van Nazarene Braun K. Prevalence of Four Developmental Disabilities Among Children Aged 8 Years --- Metropolitan Atlanta Developmental Disabilities Surveillance Program, 1996 and 2000. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. January 27, 2006 / 55(SS01);1-9
• Plo of D, Ha mel SC. Developmental Screening Is An Important Part Of Well Care: How Can We Really Make It Happen? Basic Principles For Practice Change In The Real World. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics' Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics' Newsletter; June 2002
• Sand N, Silver stein M, Glace FP, Gu pta VB, Tonnages TP, and O'Connor KG. Pediatricians' Reported Practices Regarding Developmental Screening: Do Guidelines Work? Do They Help? Pediatrics 2005;116 174-179
• Ices L, Fecundate C, McLaughlin J, Dotard D, Williams M. How Do Primary Care Physicians Manage Children With Possible Developmental Delays? A National Survey With an Experimental Design. Pediatrics. Feb. 2004;113:274- 282
• Stein MT, Carey WB, Snyder DM. Is This a Behavior Problem or Normal Temperament? Pediatrics. Nov 2004;114:1400-1406
• Stein MT, Zwieback M."Not Listening, Stubborn, and Problems With Sleeping"—Interpreting a Parent's Concerns at a 3-Year-Old's Health-Supervision Visit. Pediatrics. Nov 2004;114:1419 -1424
• Simmer MH, Pan ko LM. 2006. Developmental status and service use among children in the child welfare system. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 160(2):183-186.

Hearing Screening

Fact Sheets

• AAP Periodicity Scale
• How Medical and Other Health Professionals Can Help Increase the Number of Infants Who Return for a Follow-up Evaluation
• State Summary Statistics: Universal Newborn Hearing Screening
  ( Is your state making the grade on infant hearing screenings?)

The federal Maternal Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration and health literacy researchers at Louisiana State University developed the following materials to help health care professionals provide parents with easy to understand newborn hearing screening information.

• Can Your Baby Hear: Your Baby's First Hearing Test
• Can Your Baby Hear: Your Baby's First Hearing Test (Spanish)
• Your Baby Needs Another Hearing Test: Finding Hearing Loss Early Can Make A Big Difference In Your Baby's Life
• Your Baby Needs Another Hearing Test:(Spanish)

Policy Statements

• Joint Committee on Infant Hearing. Principles and Guidelines for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Programs Pediatrics. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics; 2000
• Hearing Assessment in Infants and Children: Recommendations Beyond Neonatal Screening Pediatrics. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics; 2003

• Thompson DC, McPhillips H, Davis RI, et al. Universal newborn hearing screening: Summary of evidence. JAMA. 2001;386(16);2000-2010
• American College of Medical Genetics and the Genetic Services Branch, MCHB/HRS. General Evaluation Guidelines for the Etiologic Diagnosis of Congenital Hearing Loss. Genetics in Medicine. 2002;4(3):162-171 .

Reports/Documents

• Gaffney M, Gamble M, Costa, P, et al. Infants tested for hearing loss -- United States, 1999-2001 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2003;52(41):981-984
  
• American Academy of Pediatrics; Joint Committee on Infant Hearing. Principles and Guidelines for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Programs Pediatrics. 2000;106(4):798-817

• PUPVS Fact Sheet

• American Academy of Pediatrics; Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine, Section on Ophthalmology, et al. Eye Examination in Infants, Children, and Young Adults by Pediatricians. Pediatrics. 2003;111(4):902-907

• Hartmann EE, Dobson V, Hainline L, et al. Preschool Vision Screening: Summary of a Task Force Report. Pediatrics. 2000;106(5):1105-1116.

• Newborn Screening Fact Sheets

• American Academy of Pediatrics; Committee on Bioethics. Ethical Issues With Genetic Testing in Pediatrics (RE9924). Pediatrics. 2001;107(6):1451-1455
• American Academy of Pediatrics; Section on Endocrinology and Committee on Genetics, and American Thyroid Association Committee on Public Health. Newborn Screening for Congenital Hypothyroidism: Recommended Guidelines (RE9316). Pediatrics. 1993;91(6):1202-1209
• Edwards SE, Howell RR, Lloyd-Puryear MA. A Look at Newborn Screening: Today and Tomorrow. Pediatrics (Supp). 2006:117(5):pp.i
  

• Desposito F, Lloyd-Puryear MA, Tonniges TF, et al. Survey of pediatrician practices in retrieving state authorized newborn screening results. Pediatrics. 2001;108(2):e22
• Malone FD, Canick JA, Ball RH, et al. First-trimester or second-trimester screening, or both, for Down's syndrome. New England Journal of Medicine. 2005;353(19):2001-2011
• Mercier, CE, Barry SE, Paul K, et al. Improving Newborn Preventive Services at the Birth Hospitalization: A Collaborative, Hospital-Based Quality-Improvement Project. Pediatrics.2007; 120(3): 481-488
• Newborn Screening Authoring Committee. 2007. Newborn screening expands: Recommendations for pediatricians and medical homes -- Implications for the system. Pediatrics 121(1):192-218.
  

• Preface
• Executive Summary
• Report

GAO Report on Newborn Screening: Characteristics of State Programs (March 2003)
www.gao.gov/new.items/d03449.pdf

MCH Library for Neonatal Screening Bibliography
Bibliography includes selected materials published primarily in 1998 or later; some are written for health professionals and some for parents. The bibliographies focus on publications from federal and state agencies, from grantees of federal and state agencies, and from professional and voluntary organizations.

Newborn Screening and Genetics Infrastructure Grants Meeting
Summary of the October 10-11, 2002 Meeting in Rockville, MD
genes-r-us.uthscsa.edu/resources/HRSAMeeting2002/proceedings-final.pdf

The Genetics Resource Center's web-site provides a compilation of resource materials, PowerPoint presentations, service and data flow charts, project abstracts and other
materials on NBS infrastructure development.

genes-r-us.uthscsa.edu or genes-r-us.uthscsa.edu/resources/HRSAMeeting2002/home.htm

Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis Conference
Summary of the November 20 - 21, 2003 Meeting in Atlanta, GA

An audiovisual presentation of the meeting proceedings is available at: www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/cf/meeting.htm

 Last Updated January 10, 2008