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Uses for the AEDI

The AEDI is useful for communities, schools, teachers, and all levels of government. 

The AEDI can:

For Communities:

• Be used to raise awareness about the importance of the early years.
• Be used with other community mapping and consultation processes to enable community mobilisation.
• Provide a common language for the community to discuss the needs of young children.
• Provide a basis for identifying possible priorities for action in the community.
• Provide communities with a tool to help understand what seems to be working well and what may need to change in their community to support families.
• Provide a baseline for measuring change in children’s development over time.
• Act as a community level evaluation tool.

For Schools and Teachers:

• Provide teachers with the opportunity to systematically reflect on all aspects of each child’s development in their first year of school.
• Provide schools with the opportunity to reflect on the development of children entering school and to consider and plan for their optimal school transitions and future needs.

The AEDI does NOT:

• Score individual children as developmentally vulnerable or performing well.
• Identify children with specific learning disabilities or areas of developmental delay.
• Recommend which children should be placed in special education categories, who should receive extra classroom assistance, or whether children should be held back a grade.
• Recommend specific teaching approaches for individual children.
• Reflect the performance of the school or the quality of teaching.