2009 Red Flags Guide

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What is the Red Flags Guide?

This document is a quick reference guide to assess children up to the age of six years for growth and development by domains. It also includes factors that affect the dynamics of parent-child interaction and impact child health, growth and development, such as postpartum mood disorder and abuse.

Red Flags allows early years professionals to review and better understand on a continuum the domains that are traditionally outside their own area of expertise. This will help them to better understand when and where to make referrals for further investigation or intervention in York Region. Domains used in this document have been organized alphabetically for easy use.

Who Should Use the Red Flags Guide?

This document is intended to be used by early years professionals working with young children up to the age of six and their families. A basic knowledge of healthy child development is assumed. Red Flags will assist professionals in identifying when a child could be at risk of not meeting his or her expected health outcomes or developmental milestones. Use of this document will help professionals to identify the need for further investigation by the appropriate discipline.

Purpose and Goal

The purpose of this guide is to promote the early identification of children who are in need of additional resources to meet their developmental milestones.

The goal is to ensure that all children in York Region are able to develop to their optimal developmental potential.

Acknowledgement

The original Red Flags document was developed by the Simcoe County Early Intervention Council and piloted in the Let's Grow Screening Clinic in early 2002. It was printed and disseminated by the Healthy Babies, Healthy Children program, Simcoe County District Health Unit as Red Flags – Let's Grow With Your Child, in March, 2003.

With the permission of our colleagues in Simcoe County, the document was reviewed and revised by the York Region Early Identification Planning Coalition and supported by York Region Health Services through 2003. The first edition of York Region's Red Flags Guide was released in June, 2004. The revisions to this guide were completed in September, 2009. Each section was reviewed, updated and revised by experts in the specific field for each domain. Relevant references and sources were added.

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