MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI): User's Guide and Technical Manual
2nd Edition
Published on 13. September 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-55766-884-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is the updated and revised manual for the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs), which are standardized, parent-completed forms for assessing language and communication skills in infants and young children. This new edition provides more detailed instructions for administering and scoring the forms; an expanded set of normative data and guidelines for using this data; an overview of the CDI-III, which is for use with slightly older children; information on new scanning and automated scoring options; updates on research and clinical findings, plus expanded reliability and validity reports; and background information on the development of the forms.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 281 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
503 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55766-884-4 (9781557668844)
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Persons
Larry Fenson is Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University. Virginia A. Marchman is Research Associate at Stanford University. Donna Thal is Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University. Philip S. Dale is Professor of Health Related Professions at the University of Missouri at Columbia. Elizabeth Bates was Professor of Psychology and of Cognitive Science at the University of California. J. Steven Reznick is Professor and Director of the Developmental Program at the University of North Carolina.
Content
Introduction; Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation; Clinical and Research Applications; Phases of the Development of the Inventories; Percentile Tables Based on Fitted Scores; The CDI-III; Appendix; References.