MacArthur Inventories

[Dale, Philip S.]

Dear Dra. Sonia Mariscal and others who may be interested,

The MacArthur CDI group has just completed an extensive revision of the User's Guide and Technical Manual for the CDIs, which will be published next year by Paul Brookes. The revision includes additional norming data, including norms up to 18 months for the CDI:Words & Gestures, and norming and other information for the CDI-III. 

As part of this revision, we have reviewed all available information on the reliability and validity of the CDI measures, including work across a variety of developmental disorders. In many cases, this includes research with children older than 30 months. Because this is primarily a summary of published work, I am happy to share that section of the manual which summarizes the reliability and validity information, if people will email me directly, at dalep at health.missouri.edu. 

There is other research using the CDIs with developmental disorders that does not provide reliability or validity information, but the references in this section should provide a good starting point.

Philip Dale


-----Original Message-----
From: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org on behalf of Sonia Mariscal
Sent: Tue 10/4/2005 06:34
To: childes
Subject: MacArthur Inventories
 
Dear INFO-Childes members:
I am looking for references reporting results of  MacArthur
Communicative Developmental Inventories with children older than 30
months-old, and also with children with different types of developmental
disorders.
I will compile the list of references and share it with the mailing
list.

Thanks in advance!

Dra. Sonia Mariscal
Dpto. Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación
Facultad de Psicología
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia