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The Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA) (Briggs-Gowan and Carter 2006) is a 42-item caregiver-report broadband screening tool developed to identify social-emotional and behavior problems and delays in the acquisition of competencies in children 11–48-months of age. The BITSEA was derived from the longer (166 item) Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (ITSEA; Carter and Briggs-Gowan 2000; Carter et al. 2003), which provides an in-depth analysis of emerging social-emotional development and intervention guidance. The BITSEA can be completed by caregiver report in approximately 5–7 minutes and is written at a fourth to sixth grade reading level (Briggs-Gowan et al. 2004). Items are rated on a three-point Likert scale, with the following anchors: not true/rarely (0), somewhat true/sometimes (1), and very true/often (2). The information gathered from the BITSEA covers a broad range of social-emotional and...
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Giserman Kiss, I., Carter, A.S. (2017). Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA). In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_102182-1
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