The Early Intervention Section currently uses the BDI-3 development delay evaluation platform. As one of two standardized evaluation tools ,used by EI providers, the BDI-3 measures global domains for children birth (0) to three (3) years of age with standard evaluation scores needed to determine a child's eligibility for EI services based on Hawaii's EI eligibility categories. The BDI-3 also has additional s sub-domains in the areas of adaptive (self-care and personal responsibility), cognitive (attention and memory, reasoning and academic skills, perception and concepts), communication (receptive and expressive), motor (gross motor, fine motor, perceptual motor), social (adult interaction, peer interaction, self-concept and social role), that provide the evaluator(s) with a more in-depth picture of the child's abilities. The BDI evaluation tool allows the evaluator(s) to administer the tool on-site using either a paper protocol and/or through a mobile data solution platform with the family using a device (e.g., iPad, tablet, laptop) using electronic record forms (ERFs).
