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The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) is a parent-focused instrument measuring the communicative development of children aged 8-37 months. CDI allows professionals to screen and develop prognoses for language delays by tapping into parents’ knowledge of their children’s language skills, starting from early comprehension to early vocabulary and grammar expansion.
Content
Grades
< 3 Years
Languages
English
Spanish
Other
Other Language/s
Afrikaans, Albanian, American Sign Language, Arabic (multiple), Arrernte, Warlpiri, Bengali, Basque, British Sign Language, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cantonese (Hong Kong), Changana, Chichewa/Nyanja, Chiyao, Croatian, Czhech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French (multiple), Galician, German (multiple), German Sign Language, Greek, (West) Greenlandic, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inuktitut, Israeli Sign Language, Italian, Italian Sign Language, Jamaican Creole, Japanese, Kannada, Kinyarwanda, Kishwahili/Kigiriama, Klingon, Krio, Korean, Latvian, Malawian, Malayalam, Mandarin (multiple), Mandinka, Ngas, North Sami, North Australian Kriol, Norwegian, Persian/Farsi, Polish, Portuguese (multiple), Ronga, Russian, Samoan, Sasak, Serbian, Setswana/Tswana, Shona, Sindhi, Sign Language of the Netherlands, Slovak, Slovenian, South Sotho, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Tongan, Turkish, Turkish Sign Language, Urdu, Vietnamese, Wolof, Xhos, Yiddish
Respondent
Parent
Examiner
Administration Information
Length
20–40 minutes
Administration
Computer
Paper
Access and Use
Price
Prices vary, see the publisher’s website.
Contact
CDI publisher (Brookes) customer support: +1-800-638-3775
Open Access
No
Use in Research
Castellanos, I., Pisoni, D. B., Kronenberger, W. G., & Beer, J. (2016). Early expressive language skills predict long-term neurocognitive outcomes in cochlear implant users: Evidence from the MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 25(3), 381-392. https://doi.org/10.1044/2016_AJSLP-15-0023
Law, J., & Roy, P. (2008). Parental report of infant language skills: A review of the development and application of the Communicative Development Inventories. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 13(4), 198-206. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-3588.2008.00503.x
Luyster, R., Lopez, K., & Lord, C. (2007). Characterizing communicative development in children referred for autism spectrum disorders using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI). Journal of Child Language, 34(3), 623-654. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000907008094
Psychometrics
Scoring
Computer scoring
Manual scoring
Psychometric References
Fenson, L., et al. (2006). The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories User’s Guide and Technical Manual. 2nd Edition. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. learn more here
Heilmann, J., Weismer, S. E., Evans, J., & Hollar, C. (2005). Utility of the MacArthur—Bates Communicative Development Inventory in identifying language abilities of late-talking and typically developing toddlers. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 14(1), 40-51. https://doi.org/10.1044/1058-0360(2005/006)
Mayor, J., & Mani, N. (2019). A short version of the MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories with high validity. Behavior Research Methods, 51(5), 2248-2255. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1146-0
