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Abstract
This study followed 106 international adoptees over an 18-month period. Mothers completed the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) at 6, 12, and 24 months post-adoption, assessing their children's development in multiple domains. Results revealed that the sample overall demonstrated linear improvement over time in most domains, but children with initially low scores remained significantly lower than others at the 18-month follow-up. ASQ scores were unrelated to age at adoption, but significant differences by birth country emerged. Across most domains, children from Eastern Europe had generally lower scores than children from other birth regions.
Acknowledgments
This study was funded in part by Grant 1 RO3 HD050243-01A2 from the National Institute of Child and Human Development (NICHD).
Notes
The ASQ has 11 forms (4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 24, 30, 36, and 48 months) and five domains of interest per form, yielding a total of 55 Cronbach's alphas. For brevity's sake, this and subsequent alphas correspond to the form that was most frequently administered in our sample (i.e., Time 1 = 16 months, Time 2 = 24 months, and Time 3 = 36 months). In general, results were consistent with alphas reported in Squires et al. (Citation1999).