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Evaluation of public health preschool child developmental screening: the process and outcomes of a community program.

Abstract

We conducted a randomized controlled trial of a public health and education screening program aimed at all 4,797 four to five year old children registering for kindergarten in three school districts of southern Ontario, Canada. Children received either the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) with a community health intervention program for positive screeness; the DDST with no intervention for positive screenees; or no screening test. The …

Authors

Cadman D; Chambers LW; Walter SD; Ferguson R; Johnston N; McNamee J

Journal

American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 45–51

Publisher

American Public Health Association

Publication Date

January 1987

DOI

10.2105/ajph.77.1.45

ISSN

0090-0036