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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In addition to their use for clinical
evaluation of infants and toddlers, many researchers have found </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>the
MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories<font color=black><span
style='color:black'> useful</span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font>as an outcome measure for the effect of other
variables, or as a technique for selecting or matching subjects. Paul H.
Brookes (htt<font color=black><span style='color:black'>p://</span></font>www.brookespublishing.com),
who now publish the Inventories, has just published the MBCDI User<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>’s</span></font> Guide and Technical
Manual, Second Edition (Fenson, Marchman, Thal, Dale, Reznick & Bates,
2007). Among the features of the revised manual which may be of<font
color=black><span style='color:black'> particular</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>interest to researchers are
the following:<br>
- more demographically balanced normative data<br>
- norms for up to 18 months for the CDI:Words and Gestures<br>
- updated review of research, clinical findings, reliability and validity<br>
- information and normative values for the CDI-III, an extension for children
30-37 months<br>
- an introduction to the automated CDI scoring program, available through the
CDI website<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Brookes also publishes the Mexican
Spanish adaptation of the CDI, the “MacArthur Inventarios <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">del</st1:place></st1:State> Desarrollo de
Habilidades Comunicativas” and the User’s Guide and Technical
Manual for that instrument (Jackson-Maldonado, Thal, Fenson, Marchman, Newton
& Conboy, 2003).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<br>
Philip S. Dale, Professor and Chair<br>
Speech & Hearing Sciences<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">New Mexico</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">1700 Lomas Blvd NE</st1:address></st1:Street><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Albuquerque</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">NM</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">87131</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
tel: 505-277-5338<br>
fax: 505-277-0968<br>
email: <i><span style='font-style:italic'>dalep@unm.edu</span></i><br>
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