About#

The Developmental Profile 4 (DP-4) assesses the developmental progress of children from birth to 21 years across five domains: physical, adaptive behavior, social-emotional, cognitive, and communication. This interview format allows parents to provide detailed insights into their child’s abilities and behaviors, facilitating the identification of developmental strengths and challenges.

Administration

Administration type	Parent Interview
Setting	{}
Duration	30 min
Respondent	Child
Visits	Visits 1-3
Ages	0-18 years

Scoring procedures

infoProprietary instrument: The DCC does not generate scores or reproduce scoring procedures for this instrument. Refer to the publisher's official documentation for scoring instructions.

Total items	3 domains: 41 Adaptive Behavior items; 36 Social-Emotional items; 34 Communication items (Physical and Cognitive domains excluded from ARIA)
Response scale	Dichotomous (0, 1)
Score types	Summary scores standardized/scaled to norms
Missingness handling	Complete responses required; no summary score is computed if any item is missing or invalid.

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