Abstract
TIlE DENVER DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING TEST is commonly used to screen young children for delays in the areas of personal-social, fine motor-adaptive, language, and gross motor development. It is predicated on the concept that a child should have developed certain skills by a given age. Children of cultural backgrounds different from the population in which the test was standardized (predominantly white and middle class: 82% white, 11% Spanish, and 7% black t) may fail certain items because of cultural differences, z-4 Failure to recognize social or cultural variations in special groups of children may lead to scoring falsely certain items as developmental delays and thus to unnecessary referrals (and expense) for diagnostic assessment. Recently, many Southeast Asian refugee children (Hmong, Laotian, Vietnamese, and Cambodian) have been screened before obvious acculturation has taken place. The purpose of our study was to determine which DDST items may be failed because of cultural differences. METHODS
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