Macarthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) Words and Gestures, Desktop Scannable - English

By Larry Fenson, Virginia Marchman Ph.D., Donna Thal Ph.D.

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The CDI: Words and Gestures Forms are for children ages 8 "18 months. In the form, the first part prompts parents to document the child (TM)s understanding of hundreds of early vocabulary items separated into semantic categories such as animal names, household items, and action words. Parents mark the words understood or used, and the forms yield separate indexes of words understood and words produced. The second part of each form asks parents to record the communicative and symbolic gestures the child has tried or completed.

These forms are part of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs). The CDIs and their Spanish adaptation, the Inventarios, are standardized, parent-completed report forms that track young children's language and communication skills. Top language researchers developed the report forms, designing them to focus on current behaviors and salient emergent behaviors that parents can recognize and track.

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Learn more about the MacArthur-Bates CDIs..

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557668922
• ISBN13: 9781557668929
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
• Length: 8 Pages