There is a developmental assessment component of the CTIS Research Program. The goal is to find out if a certain exposure during pregnancy increases the chances of having a baby with any long term effects such as developmental or learning problems. This component in the CTIS Research Program involves the following:
* If the participant delivers a liveborn infant she is mailed a set of self-reported questionnaires on two occasions: when her child is 12-16 months of age and again when her child is 24-28 months of age. She will be asked to complete the following questionnaires:
- Ages and Stages Questionnaire: Used to screen infants and young children for development in five key developmental areas.
- MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI): Used to assess the development of expressive and receptive language abilities.
- Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (ITSEA): Used to assess the social-emotional development and competencies.
- Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT) – Used to screen for autism spectrum disorders.
* Direct (face-to-face) assessments are administered by a trained psychometrist for those who qualify. The developmental assessment of the child includes a battery of age-specific standardized neurobehavioral assessments designed to measure the following:
- Mental ability
- Specific function within a neuropsychological domain of processing such as language-based, verbal memory, non-verbal memory, executive control, motor coordination, visual-spatial processing.
- Social-emotional development
