MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories

[Philip S Dale]

In addition to their use for clinical evaluation of infants and toddlers,
many researchers have found the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development
Inventories useful as an outcome measure for the effect of other variables,
or as a technique for selecting or matching subjects. Paul H. Brookes
(http://www.brookespublishing.com), who now publish the Inventories, has
just published the MBCDI User's Guide and Technical Manual, Second Edition
(Fenson, Marchman, Thal, Dale, Reznick & Bates, 2007). Among the features of
the revised manual which may be of particular interest to researchers are
the following:
- more demographically balanced normative data
- norms for up to 18 months for the CDI:Words and Gestures
- updated review of research, clinical findings, reliability and validity
- information and normative values for the CDI-III, an extension for
children 30-37 months
- an introduction to the automated CDI scoring program, available through
the CDI website

 

Brookes also publishes the Mexican Spanish adaptation of the CDI, the
"MacArthur Inventarios del Desarrollo de Habilidades Comunicativas" and the
User's Guide and Technical Manual for that instrument (Jackson-Maldonado,
Thal, Fenson, Marchman, Newton & Conboy, 2003).


 
Philip S. Dale, Professor and Chair
Speech & Hearing Sciences
University of New Mexico
1700 Lomas Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87131
tel: 505-277-5338
fax: 505-277-0968
email: dalep at unm.edu
 

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