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Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
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.
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
< 3 Years,
Pre-Kindergarten
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Child Development ; Communicative development
Languages
Afrikaans,
Albanian,
American Sign Language,
Arabic,
Arrernte,
Warlpiri,
Bengali,
Basque,
British Sign Language,
Bulgarian,
Catalan,
Cantonese (Hong Kong),
Changana,
Chichewa/Nyanja,
Chiyao,
Croatian,
Czech,
Danish,
Dutch,
Estonian,
Faroese,
Finnish,
French,
Galician,
German,
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,
Mandinka,
Ngas,
Northsami,
North Australian Kriol,
Norwegian,
Farsi (Persian),
Polish,
Portuguese,
Ronga,
Russian,
Samoan,
Sasak,
Serbian,
Swetswana 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
Free, but training is for a fee.
Contact
CDI publisher (Brookes) customer support: +1-800-638-3775
Open Access
No
Setting
Undefined
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
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
