The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories: updates from the CDI Advisory Board
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MacArthur-Bates CDI, parent report, language development, Wordbank, Web-CDI, CDI-CAT We use the term "parent" to refer to any individual who takes care of the child on a regular basis, which could include parents, grandparents, step-parents, and others.
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Parent assessment via CDI is advantageous because parents provide their assessment based on continuous observation in diverse settings, as opposed to a brief laboratory visit that may not accurately represent a child's behavior in their daily environment.
“This survey method is advantageous as parents provide their assessment of their children based on continuous observation in diverse settings, as opposed to a brief laboratory visit that may not accurately represent a child’s behavior in their daily environment [60].”
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Goble, G., Hennessy, V., Cheng, T.-H. Z., Rodda, A., Taulu, S., Gordon, R. L., & Zhao, T. C. (2026) · PLOS One · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0335596
“This survey method is advantageous as parents provide their assessment of their children based on continuous observation in diverse settings, as opposed to a brief laboratory visit that may not accurately represent a child’s behavior in their daily environment [60].”
- Authors
- Marchman, V. A., & Dale, P. S.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- University of New Mexico (US)
- Corresponding author
- Marchman, Virginia A.
- Venue
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2023-05-31
- Volume
- 14
- Pages
- 1170303-1170303
- ISSN
- 1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC10264806
- OpenAlex
- W4378904750
- Cited by
- 56
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 2 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 26.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2023-08-10)
- Open access
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- doi.org
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Keywords
- MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory, language development, parent report, child language assessment, communication development
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