Increasingly, we receive questions about adapting the SWYC. In response, we want to have a clear process to consider potential changes that balances the practical and scientific needs for revisions with the benefits of offering a single, stable instrument that we call the SWYC.

The SWYC has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Chuuksee, Khmer, Burmese, Nepali, Haitian-Creole, Vietnamese, Samoan, Somali, Arabic, Tagalog and Bengali.

There is a SWYC form for every age on the pediatric periodicity schedule. Forms are located below.

The SWYC includes brief questionnaires to assess three domains of child functioning.

The Survey of Well-being of Young Children (SWYC)™ is a freely available, comprehensive screening instrument for children under 5 years of age. The SWYC was written to be simple to answer, short, and easy to read.

The entire instrument requires 15 minutes or less to complete and is straightforward to score and interpret. The SWYC is approved by MassHealth for compliance with the Children's Behavioral Health Initiative screening guidelines.