MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) Words and Sentences Forms

16-30 Months
Used in both research and clinical settings, these parent report instruments help SLPs and other professionals screen children, develop a prognosis for children with language delays, plan effective intervention, monitor progress, and meet mandates for including parent input in child evaluation.

Used in both research and clinical settings, these parent report instruments help SLPs and other professionals screen children, develop a prognosis for children with language delays, plan effective intervention, monitor progress, and meet mandates for including parent input in child evaluation.

WHAT’S NEW

The third edition of the CDIs includes updated norms, additional tools, and more administration formats and helpful resources. Here’s a look at what’s new:

• Expanded and more representative norms—more than 4,000 new children have been added to the norming dataset for the CDI: Words and Gestures and CDI: Words and Sentences. Norming tables have been statistically adjusted to reflect key U.S. demographic indicators.
• More options for electronic administration of the CDIs, including fillable PDFs and a new web-based administration platform, Web-CDI
• New picture-based instructions with easy-to-understand illustrations and examples
• More extensive administration and scoring guidelines
• More on using the CDIs with bilingual and multilingual children
• An expanded chapter on the CDI-III
• Detailed guidelines about choosing the most appropriate CDI forms when several are potentially useful
• Expanded guidelines on the use of CDI short forms, including new statistically-adjusted norms and information on reliability and validity
• More CDI resources available online, including Wordbank, an open repository of CDI data in 38 languages representing more than 84,000 children
• A rapid, valid Computerized Adaptive scale for expressive vocabulary, now available through Web-CDI
• A helpful list of frequently asked questions

UK Delivery:

• Free delivery on all orders of £10 or more.
• £1.49 delivery fee on orders below £10.
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International Delivery:

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• UK mainland orders typically arrive within 3-5 working days via Royal Mail 2nd Class.
• International estimated delivery times:
• Europe & Channel Islands: 7 to 10 working days
• USA: 7 to 15 working days
• Rest of the World: 9 to 21 working days

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