Overview
Used in both research and clinical settings, these parent report instruments help SLPs and other professionals screen children, develop a prognosis for children with language delays, plan effective intervention, monitor progress, and meet mandates for including parent input in child evaluation.
Words and Gestures form (ages 8 to 18 months). With this comprehensive instrument, parents document the child’s understanding of hundreds of early vocabulary items, and the form yields separate indexes of words understood and words produced. Then, parents record communicative and symbolic gestures the child has tried or completed. It is available in a pack of 25.
WHAT’S NEW
The third edition of the CDIs includes updated norms, additional tools, and more administration formats and helpful resources. Here’s a look at what’s new:
- Expanded and more representative norms—more than 4,000 new children have been added to the norming dataset for the CDI: Words and Gestures and CDI: Words and Sentences. Norming tables have been statistically adjusted to reflect key U.S. demographic indicators.
- More options for electronic administration of the CDIs, including fillable PDFs and a new web-based administration platform, Web-CDI
- New picture-based instructions with easy-to-understand illustrations and examples
- More extensive administration and scoring guidelines
- More on using the CDIs with bilingual and multilingual children
- An expanded chapter on the CDI-III
- Detailed guidelines about choosing the most appropriate CDI forms when several are potentially useful
- Expanded guidelines on the use of CDI short forms, including new statistically-adjusted norms and information on reliability and validity
- More CDI resources available online, including Wordbank, an open repository of CDI data in 38 languages representing more than 84,000 children
- A rapid, valid Computerized Adaptive scale for expressive vocabulary, now available through Web-CDI
- A helpful list of frequently asked questions
This book title, MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) Words and Gestures Forms (8-18 Months), ISBN: 9781681257013, by Larry Fenson, Virginia Marchman, Donna Thal, Philip Dale, J. Reznick, Elizabeth Bates, The CDI Advisory Board, published by Brookes Publishing (April 26, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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