McArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI): Proposal of an Abbreviate Version
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2011
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PONTIFICA UNIV JAVERIANA, FAC PSYCH
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The McArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) assesses language development en children, through a significant caregiver report. The first inventory assesses verbal and non verbal language in infants who are from 8 to 18 months old and it is composed of 949 items distributed in 6 scales. This study proposes an abbreviate form of this instrument, and was tested on families and educators of 130 Chilean children of 11-15 months old. Analyses related to the items, reliability and validity of the instrument and factorial analyses of subscales were realized. The abbreviate version consider 241 items distributed in 4 scales. The evaluation of the psychometric properties of the instrument was acceptable, demonstrating adequate reliability and validity.
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Language, Abbreviate Instrument, Psychometric, Caregivers Report, LANGUAGE-IMPAIRED CHILDREN, SYMBOLIC PLAY