MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI): User's Guide and Technical Manual (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Professionals can learn a great deal about young children's emerging language and communication skills by consulting the ones who know the children best: their parents or caregivers. With the CDIs, professionals can tap into parents? day-to-day knowledge about their children's language and communication skills?and respond to legislation that requires parental input in child evaluations. In this new edition, The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories User's Guide and Technical Manual provides an expanded set of normative data more demographically balanced than the original studies, an overview of the brief versions of the CDI, more detailed information of the administration of the inventories, and updates on research and clinical findings and expanded sections on reliability and validity incorporating new data. For use with children 8-30 months.