Cognitive Assessment of Young Children (CAYC)

Purpose: Helps to identify children with developmental delay

Age: 2 months-5.11 years

Time: 15-30 minutes

The Cognitive Assessment of Young Children (CAYC) is an easy-to-administer screening and assessment tool used to identify children with developmental delays.

The CAYC consists of 107 structured, play-based items in six age-related levels. Each level consists of developmental and mega-cognitive tasks.

The CAYC serves four main purposes:

1. Early Identification of Developmental Delay in order to facilitate early intervention.
2. Determination of Strengths and Weaknesses contributes valuable information to the total diagnostic effort.
3. Documentation of Progress provides clinicians, early childhood educators, teachers, diagnosticians, and psychologists a base from which to monitor change and evaluation. Conclusions can then be made on whether to continue, modify, or terminate the intervention program.
4. Research Data can be collected from the well-constructed, reliable and valid results.