1 Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of South Alabama
2 Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
In Reply.
Dr Frankenburg has raised a number of interesting points. Initially, he addresses concern about the use of "questionable" scores for individual sectors of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST). Although we understand that the DDST should not be scored by individual sectors, to obtain a total test result each sector must be scored. On page 26 in the DDST manual/workbook currently distributed, a questionable score results with the following circumstances: "1 or more sectors with 1 delay and in that same sector no passes intersect the age line" (underline appears in manual).1