Description
Assist parents to become keener observers of developmental milestones. The Ounce Scale provides a structure to help parents observe a range of relevant behaviours in their child’s growth.
Assist parents to become keener observers of developmental milestones. The Ounce Scale provides a structure to help parents observe a range of relevant behaviours in their child’s growth.
Author:
Samuel J. Meisels, EdD, Dorothea B. Marsden, MEd, Amy Laura Dombro, Donna R. Weston, Abigail M. Jewkes
Overview:Assist parents to become keener observers of developmental milestones.
Age Range:Birth–3:6 years old
Scoring Option:Ounce Online (ordered by phone at 1.800.627.7271) or manual scoring
Scoring Options:Ounce Online (ordered by phone at 1.800.627.7271) or manual scoring
Publication Date:2003
Help parents become keener observers of developmental milestones
Most parents are quick to relate their kid’s “golden moments” — the first step, the first word, the funny dance. But they may not realize the more subtle yet important indicators of their child’s growth. The Ounce Scale provides a structure to help parents observe a range of relevant behaviors — so that you can better assess the child’s development.
Product details
Designed for use with infants and toddlers, The Ounce Scale is organized around six major developmental areas:
- Personal connections: How children show they trust you
- Feelings about self: How children express who they are
- Relationships with other children: What children do around other children
- Understanding and communicating: How children understand and communicate
- Exploration and problem solving: How children explore and figure things out
- Movement and coordination: How children move their bodies and use their hands to do things
Recommended uses
The Ounce Scale offers a meaningful way to evaluate and document children’s growth, accomplishments, areas of difficulty, and temperament. This versatile tool is used by:
- Center-based childcare personnel
- Early Head Start teachers
- Home visitors
- Parent support group leaders
- Visiting nurses
- Teen parenting program staff
- Early interventional specialists
- Family home daycare providers
- Pediatricians and health aides
Benefits to you and the children you serve
- Presents a highly reliable, criterion-referenced measure based on specific developmental standards
- Helps meet Early Head Start and federal assessment requirements
- Allows you to gather information from multiple perspectives, giving a more well-rounded picture of the child’s development
- Takes a natural, whole-child approach to observation
- Helps educate parents so that they can become more involved in decisions about their children
- Supports early intervention for at-risk kids
- Enables you to celebrate children’s achievements
- Offers your district online tools to help streamline data collection and reporting
Materials
The Ounce Scale comprises three core components:
- Observation Record — Provides a focus for observing and documenting children’s everyday behaviors and provides data for making evaluations
- Family Album — Offers a structure for parents to learn about and record their child’s development
- Developmental Profile — Enables caregivers and other staff to evaluate each child’s development and progress over time, comparing their observations
Pre-recorded Webinars
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Getting Started with Ounce Online
Presenter: Gloria Maccow, PhD
The Ounce Scale provides a structure to help parents and child care providers observe a range of relevant behaviors. The core components of the Ounce Scale are Observation Record, Family Album, and Developmental Profile. This one-hour session is designed for administrators and child care providers who are using Ounce Online. The presenter will demonstrate how to create a class roster by adding teachers and children and how to use the online system to document observations.
Date: Oct 21, 2014
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Overview of The Ounce Scale
Presenter: Gloria Maccow, PhD
The Ounce Scale provides a structure to help parents and other child care providers observe a range of relevant behaviors. This one-hour webinar will provide an overview of the core components of The Ounce Scale – Observation Record, Family Album, and Developmental Profile.
Date: Jun 04, 2014
PDF: Overview of The Ounce Scale
