Challenges of Assessing Maltreated Children Coming into Foster Care

Table 1

Scores on the Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS).

	No/A little	Yes
Concerns about how child talks and makes speech sounds	49 (70%)	21 (30%)
Concerns about how child understands what you say	62 (89%)	8 (11%)
Concerns about how child uses hand and fingers to do things	66 (96%)	3 (4%)
Concerns about how child uses arms and legs	63 (90%)	7 (10%)
Concerns about how child behaves	50 (71%)	20 (29%)
Concerns about how child gets along with others	59 (84%)	11 (16%)
Concerns about how child is learning to do things for him/herself	68 (97%)	2 (3%)
Concerns about how child is learning preschool skills	60 (90%)	7 (10%)