User's Guide and Technical Manual

This easy-to-read manual provides professionals with a thorough introduction to the standardized, parent-completed report forms designed by top language researchers to assess language and communication skills in young children ages 8–30 months. The second edition of the English User’s Guide and Technical Manual includes:

 

 

This manual is 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.

Use the CDI to get a reliable view of a child’s communicative development.

 

Standardized parent-completed forms that help professionals screen young children’s emerging language and communication skills

 

Language and communication skills

 

8–37 months (may also be used with older children who have developmental delays)

 

 

The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) provide a systematic way for professionals to use parents as informants regarding their child’s language. They enable professionals to tap into parents knowledge about their young children’s communicative development for use in screening and developing a prognosis for children with language delays. It also ensures they are meeting mandates for including parent input in child evaluation procedures.

 

The goal of the CDI is to yield reliable information on the course of language development from children’s early signs of comprehension, to their first nonverbal gestural signals, to the expansion of early vocabulary and the beginnings of grammar.

 

With the CDI, professionals tap into parents' day-to-day knowledge about their children’s language and communication skills. The User's Guide and Technical Manual provides complete instructions, technical reports, norms, and guidance on interpreting scores for various subpopulations.

 

The Words & Gestures forms tap into parents' day-to-day knowledge about their children’s language and communication skills between the ages of 8 and 18 months.

 

The Words & Sentences forms tap into parents' day-to-day knowledge about their children’s language and communication skills between the ages of 16 and 30 months.