For undergraduate and graduate courses in Assessment of Infants and Young Children with Disabilities found in Special Education, Psychology, and Early Childhood Education departments. A unique text written for early childhood special educators and other professionals who work with infants and preschoolers, focusing on assessment for the purpose of planning effective intervention programs. The book carefully and thoroughly examines assessment issues, considerations, and procedures that can help pinpoint intervention needs, and thus lead to more effective service. It presents fundamentals common to all assessment, as well as those specific to the assessment of young children.