Hawaii Early Learning Profile Resources (HELP)

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HELP Activity Guide (0-3): Comprehensive Strategies Essential for Planning Intervention, $57.95 Product # 152

This very popular and widely-used resource takes you easily beyond assessment to offer the important next step — thousands of task-analyzed, practical curriculum activities and intervention strategies indexed by the 685 HELP skills. Offering up to ten activities/strategies per skill, this important tool includes definitions for each skill, illustrations and cross references to skills in other developmental areas, a glossary, and a list of commercial materials.


HELP at Home (0-3), 2nd Edition, $146.95 Product # 156

535 ready-to-use reproducible handouts, with links assessment directly to intervention. Includes thousands of "at home" activities with  warm photos and practical suggestions.


HELP Charts (0-3), $5.50 Product # 150

Facilitates and helps communication with parents and involving them in their child's plan. The Charts are a set of 3 different sheets displaying the 685 HELP developmental skills as a horizontal continuum for the six domains of Cognitive, Language, Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Social, and Self-Help. Each sheet covers two of the six developmental domains. The clear format makes it easy to review mastery of skills, target objectives, and chart and track progress.

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HELP Checklist (0-3), $5.50 Product # 151

Covers the same six developmental domains/areas as the HELP Charts and the HELP Strands, but in a different format. The Checklist groups the 685 HELP skills in the six domains according to age level, with columns for easy recording of assessment dates, progress information, and comments. Helpful for assessment of children who are developing normally or considered "at-risk."


HELP Family Centred Interview: Birth to Three, $3.15 Product # 157

Facilitates your family interview and assessment process — a listing of 80 key open-ended questions and prompts based on over 400 sample questions from Inside HELP — in a simple format you can use directly with parents. Helps you focus on family-centered priorities and outcomes for more effective intervention.


HELP Strands (0-3): Curriculum-Based Assessment, $5.75 Product # 158

Offers key developmental assessment framework — skills are "stranded" by interrelated concepts. Makes for easier identification and selection of "next steps" — target skills.

HELP Strands 0-3 PLUS: Curriculum-Based Assessment, $6.25 Product # 158-P

HELP STRANDS 0-3 PLUS was developed to support the needs of Birth to Three programs with three-year-old children who have not yet “graduated”, or are advanced beyond three years in some areas of development. HELP STRANDS 0-3 PLUS extends the range of the HELP Strands 0-3 by adding 36-48 month-range skills form the complementary but separate HELP Strands 3-6.

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HELP 3-6 Activities at Home, 2nd Edition, $98.95 Product # 656

Provides reproducible, ready-to use parent handouts to help you work with and support parents as they work on behaviors and skills at home, in conjunction with your program planning.


HELP 3-6 Assessment Manual, 2nd Edition, $89.95 Product # 659

Comprehensive assessment procedures, definitions, materials lists in one easy-to-use tool. Covers 585 developmental behaviors/skills arranged in 47 developmental Strands that seamlessly extend HELP 0-3.


HELP 3-6 Assessment Strands: Curriculum-Based Assessment, 2nd Edition, $5.50 Product # 658

The HELP 3-6 behaviors/skills follow a "normal" developmental sequence within strands and are applicable to all children. New format for easier developmental assessment.

  • Groups the 585 HELP 3-6 behaviors/skills into 47 "concept-based" strands.
  • Provides columns for recording assessment dates, credit, ongoing observations and notes.
  • Includes a definition for each behavior/skill to help with continuity in applying credit.
  • Three of the strands are for use with children who have special needs.

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HELP 3-6 Curriculum Guide, 2nd Edition, $62.95 Product # 652

Instructional activities, definitions, materials linked directly to the assessment behaviors/skills.

  • Makes curriculum planning more practical and efficient
  • Links instruction directly to assessment
  • Thousands of effective instructional activities.

HELP 3-6 Charts, 2nd Edition, $5.50 Product # 650

The Charts are a set of 3 different sheets displaying the HELP 3-6 behaviors/skills as a horizontal continuum. The Charts cover the six developmental domains: Cognitive, Language, Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Social, and Self-Help. Each sheet covers two of the six developmental domains.

  • Provides a complete "visual" developmental profile.
  • Helpful for assessment of children who are developing normally or considered "at-risk."
  • Convenient for reviewing and tracking behavior/skills by age.

HELP 3-6 Checklist: Curriculum-Based Assessment, 2nd Edition, $5.50 Product # 651

Facilitates your focus on a child's strengths, as well as needs, provides adaptations for assessing each behavior/skill, and promotes high expectations for all children. The Checklist covers the six developmental domains: Cognitive, Language, Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Social-Emotional, and Self Help. Follows a "normal" developmental sequence within strands and are applicable to all children. Three of the strands are for use with children who have special needs.

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HELP When the Parent has Disabilities. Stephanie Parks, $62.95 Product # 153

This unique resource offers thousands of activities and training techniques for directly involving parents who are blind, deaf, have physical disabilities, or have cognitive or developmental deficits. It is cross-referenced to the HELP skills (ages birth-2 years), and offers special adaptations for parent training and involvement. A valuable tool, it provides an effective basis for the involvement of all parents.


Inside HELP: Administration and Reference Manual for the Hawaii Early Learning Profile. Stephanie Parks, $106.95 Product # 159

This comprehensive administration manual is essential for the proper use of the HELP materials, and it offers a wealth of developmental assessment procedures for using HELP — the Hawaii Early Learning Profile (0-3) — for effective curriculum-based assessment, planning, therapy, and intervention.

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