Brief description of the selected screening tools
| Screening tool | Country of origin | Study country | Concerned age | Parent-reported version | Questionnaire type | Number of questionnaires | Number of items | Developmental domain | Validated against |
| General screening tools | |||||||||
| Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) | USA | India, China | 1–66 months | Yes | Q & A | 21 age sets | 30 items per set | Communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving, personal-social | Developmental Assessment Scales for Indian Infants (DASII)38 |
| Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID-III)39 | |||||||||
| Development Screening Questionnaire DSQ) | Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 0-24 months | No | Q & A | 24 age sets | 8 questions per set | Gross motor, fine motor, vision, hearing, cognition, socialisation, behaviour and speech | Rapid Neurodevelopmental Assessment (RNDA)41 |
| Guide for Monitoring Child Development (GMCD) | Turkey | Turkey | 0–3.5 years | Yes | Q & A | Single | 7 items | Expressive language and communication, receptive language, fine and gross motor, social-emotional, self-help | Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID-II)42 |
| Lucknow Developmental Screen (LDS) | India | India | 0-24 months | Yes | Chart | Single | 27 item | Motor, mental, language, social | Developmental Assessment Scales for Indian Infants (DASII)46 |
| Vineland Social Maturity Scale46 | |||||||||
| Mongolian Rapid Baby Scale (MORBAS) | Mongolia | Mongolia | 0–42 months | No | Written | Single | 161 item | Cognitive, receptive communication, expressive communication, fine motor, gross motor, social-emotional, adaptive behaviour | Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (BSID-III)47 |
| New Delhi-Development Screening Questionnaire (ND-DSQ) | India | India | 9–18 months | Yes | Q & A | 2 age sets | 20 items | General screening tool (domains not explicitly mentioned) | Developmental Assessment Scales for Indian Infants (DASII)48 |
| Parent Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) | USA | Thailand | 0-8 years | Yes | Q & A | Single | 10 items | Global/cognitive, speech/expressive language, receptive language, behaviour, social-emotional, school, self-help, fine motor, gross motor, other | Parent Evaluation of Developmental Status: Developmental Milestones, Assessment Level49 |
| Mullen Scales of Early Learning50 | |||||||||
| Rapid Prescreening Denver Questionnaire (R-PDQ) | USA | India | 0–6 years | No | Q & A | 4 age sets | 25 items | Gross motor, fine motor activity, personal-social, language | Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST)51 |
| Road to Health Booklet Developmental Checklist (RTHB-DC) | South Africa | South Africa | 14 weeks to 6 years | No | Checklist | Single | 21 items | Gross motor, fine motor, communication, vision, hearing | Parent Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS)52 |
| Parent Evaluation of Developmental Status: Developmental Milestones52 | |||||||||
| Ten Questions Screening Instrument (TQSI) | Multiple | Benin | 2–9 years | Yes | Q & A | Single | 10 items | Vision, hearing, seizure, cognition, motor | Mullen Scales of Early Learning53 |
| Trivandrum Developmental Screening Chart (TDSC) | India | India | 0–2 years | No | Chart | Single | 17 items | Mental, motor, vision, hearing | Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST)54 |
| Woodside System Screening Technique (WSST) | Scotland | India | 0–4 years | No | Chart | Single | 70 items | Social, hearing and language, vision and fine motor, gross motor | Gesell’s Developmental Schedules (GDS)55 |
| Language screening tools | |||||||||
| American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) | USA | Brazil | 0–5 years | No | Q & A | 7 age sets | 6–13 items | Language reception and expression | Child Language Test in Phonology, Vocabulary, Fluency and Pragmatics (ABFW*)40 |
| Language Evaluation Scale Trivandrum for 0–3 years (LEST 0-3) | India | India | 0–3 years | No | Chart | Single | 33 items | Speech and language | Receptive Expressive Emergent Language Scale (REELS)44 |
| Motor screening tools | |||||||||
| Infant Neurological International Battery (INFANIB) | USA | Iran | 0–18 months | No | Not found | Single | 20 items | Gross motor | Developmental Assessment by Paediatric Neurologist43 |
| Little Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (Little DCDQ) | Israel | South Africa | 3–5 years | Yes | Q & A | Single | 15 items | Gross motor, fine motor | Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2 (MABC-2)45 |
*ABFW: Child Language Test in Phonology, Vocabulary, Fluency and Pragmatics. Originally known as “Teste de Linguagem Infantil nas Áreas de Fonologia,Vocabulário, Fluência e Pragmática” (Portuguese Brazilian)