How it Works

Home visitors, including public health nurses, social workers, mental health care providers, and family development and family support workers, use the LSP to evaluate a variety of important life skills. An experienced professional familiar with the family records information on 43 items in eight important domains:

• Relationships with Family and Friends
• Relationships with Children
• Relationships with Supportive Resources
• Education and Employment
• Health and Medical Care
• Mental Health and Substance Abuse
• Basic Essentials
• Infant/Toddler Development

Home visitors rate each competency from 1 to 5 on a simple-to-complete form, where they can also record important case data in the notes section. No judgment of families is implied—the LSP is used only to track the progress of children and parents or caregivers, and can be repeated every six months until the child is 5.

What's New

• New chapter on using the LSP to promote maternal health literacy
• Guidance on completing the LSP during virtual home visits
• LSP Instrument and downloads now provided as fillable PDFs
• Updated research, citations, and information throughout
• Updates and improvements based on customer surveys and feedback from the field
• Scoring descriptions updated for clarity
• Ancillary materials now provided as convenient downloads

Use the LSP with ASQ®-3 & ASQ®:SE-2!

With items that match the ASQ developmental areas, the LSP makes it easy to summarize the developmental data you gathered with the ASQ system.