A Screening Version of the Swedish Communicative Development Inventories Designed for Use With 18-Month-Old Children

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 948-960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mårten Eriksson ◽  
Monica Westerlund ◽  
Eva Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Response Rate ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Community Health Care ◽  
Parental Report ◽  
Descriptive Data ◽  
Swedish Version ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
Parental Reports ◽  
Communicative Gestures

An instrument designed to assess young children's communicative skills at 18 months is described. The instrument consists of a 103-item parental report checklist based on the Swedish version of the Communicative Development Inventories (SECDI). We present descriptive data from a study at the Swedish Community Health Care Centres, including parental reports of 1021 18-month-old children. The response rate was 88%. Performance at the 10th percentile consisted of 8 communicative gestures, 45 comprehended words, and 7 spoken words. The overall results indicate that the instrument is reliable and has validity approximating that of the SECDI. Furthermore, parents of the children with the poorest vocabulary indicated approval of the assessment procedure in interviews especially directed to this group.

Parental reports of communicative development at the age of 36 months: The Estonian CDI-III

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-83
Author(s):  
Tiia Tulviste ◽  
Astra Schults
Keyword(s):  
Day Care ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
Language Difficulties ◽  
Parental Reports ◽  
Language Measures ◽  
The Impact

Parental reports are a widely-used source of information about infants’ and toddlers’ communicative skills, but parent-report instruments valid for children older than 30 months are less known. This study explored individual variability in children’s communicative skills at the age of 3;0 via parental reports using the Estonian (E) CDI-III. The validity of ECDI-III was established through correlations with another parent-report instrument (ECDI-II) and a standardized examiner-administered language assessment (New Reynell Developmental Language Scales; NRDLS). A hundred Estonian-speaking children ( M age = 35.77 months, age range from 34 to 39 months; 20 of them with reported language difficulties) participated in the study. Relations between different communicative skills and the impact of such factors as the child’s gender, maternal and paternal education, reported language difficulties, the number of siblings, and day care attendance on variability in vocabulary size were also considered. The results showed that the ECDI-III components were moderately to strongly associated with each other, with the ECDI-II and NRDLS. Children with reported language difficulties scored lower on all language measures, except for orthographic awareness. Girls, children of more educated mothers, children with older siblings, and those who had attended day care for more months obtained higher vocabulary scores.

scholarly journals LATVIAN ADAPTATION OF MCARTHUR-BATES COMMUNICATIVE DEVELOPMENT INVENTORIES

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 487
Author(s):  
Anna Vulāne ◽  
Olga Urek ◽  
Dace Markus
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Parental Report ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Communicative Gestures

The article discusses the methodology and the preliminary results of the research project entitled “Latvian language in Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition: tools, theories and applications” (LAMBA). The project involves 25 researchers – linguists, educators, psychologists – from five institutions in Latvia and Norway, and focuses on phonological, lexical and morphosyntactic acquisition of Latvian as a native language in monolingual and bilingual settings. One of the main goals of the project is to develop a set of norm-referenced language assessment tools that would allow for accurate and time-efficient evaluation of language development in pre-school children.The article will focus specifically on the Latvian adaptation of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories – a parental report tool that assesses the development of receptive and productive vocabulary, and certain aspects of grammar. Two CDI forms were adapted in the project: CDI Words and Gestures designed for use with children between 8 and 16 months of age, and CDI Words and Sentences designed for 16- to 36-month old children. Each CDI form contains extensive and language-specific checklists of lexical items, communicative gestures and grammatical constructions.

scholarly journals Developmental pathways between infant gestures and symbolic actions, and children’s communicative skills at age 5: Findings from the All Our Families pregnancy cohort

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Morin-Lessard ◽  
Rochelle F. Hentges ◽  
Suzanne C. Tough ◽  
Susan Graham
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Developmental Pathways ◽  
Parental Report ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Transition To Kindergarten ◽  
Pregnancy Cohort ◽  
Using Data ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Communicative Gestures

Using data from the All Our Families study, a longitudinal study of 1992 mother-child dyads in Canada (47.7% female; 81.9% White), we examined the developmental pathways between infant gestures and symbolic actions and communicative skills at age 5. Communicative gestures at age 12 months (e.g., pointing, nodding head “yes”), obtained via parental report, predicted stronger general communicative skills at age 5 years. Moreover, greater use of symbolic actions (e.g., “feeding” a stuffed animal with a bottle) indirectly predicted increased communicative skills at age 5 via increased productive vocabulary at 24 months. These pathways support the hypothesis that children’s communicative skills during the transition to kindergarten emerge from a chain of developmental abilities starting with gestures and symbolic actions during infancy.

PARENTAL REPORTS OF SEASONAL MOOD AND BEHAVIOR CHANGES IN CHILDREN

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (5) ◽  
pp. A70-A70
Author(s):  
Mary A. Carskadon ◽  
Christine Acebo
Keyword(s):  
Response Rate ◽  
Light Therapy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Therapeutic Benefit ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
Regional Effects ◽  
Parental Reports ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Potential Therapeutic Benefit ◽  
Careful Assessment

Objective: The chief purpose of this study was to investigate the nature and prevalence of children's seasonal symptoms. Method: Parental reports of seasonal changes in six mood or behavioral symptoms (sleeping, eating, irritability, energy, withdrawal, and sadness) were surveyed for children living across the United States. The sample included 892 girls (mean age = 10.5 ± 1.0 years) and 788 boys (mean age = 10.6 ± 0.9 years), with a response rate of 46% for girls' parents and 39% for boys' parents. Results: At least one winter recurring symptom was reported in 48.5% of children, as compared with 91% in fall and 10.8% in spring. Winter symptoms were reported equally in girls and boys with one exception ("is tired"); age effects were found for three symptoms only in girls ("sleeps more," "is tired," and "withdraws"). Regional effects showed more winter symptoms reports in northern zones than in southern zones. Conclusions: Given the potential therapeutic benefit of light therapy in children with seasonal patterns, careful assessment of seasonality is merited for children with winter mood and behavior problems.

Young children's acquisition of the handshape aspect of American Sign Language signs: Parental report findings

1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Siedlecki ◽  
John D. Bonvillian
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Home Visit ◽  
Ordinal Position ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Parental Report ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Deaf Parents ◽  
Parental Reports

ABSTRACTThe acquisition of the handshape aspect of American Sign Language signs was examined longitudinally in nine young children of deaf parents. In monthly home visit sessions, the parents demonstrated on videotape how their children formed the different signs in their lexicons. According to these parental reports, handshapes were produced accurately in 49.8% of the children's different signs. Accuracy of handshape production typically improved with the children's increasing age and vocabulary size. Four basic handshapes (/5, G, B, A/) predominated in the children's early sign productions. Measures of the children's handshape production accuracy, ordinal position of initial production, and frequency of production were used to describe the order in which handshapes were most often acquired. It was also observed that the part of the hand involved in contacting a sign's location often affected the accuracy of the handshapes being produced.

scholarly journals What is ‘word understanding’ for the parent of a one-year-old? Matching the difficulty of a lexical comprehension task to parental CDI report

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 895-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUZY STYLES ◽  
KIM PLUNKETT
Keyword(s):  
Parental Report ◽  
Identification Task ◽  
Comprehension Task ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
Item Level ◽  
Image Pairs ◽  
One Year ◽  
Infant Behaviour

ABSTRACTIs parental report of comprehension valid for individual words? If so, how well must an infant know a word before their parents will report it as ‘understood’? We report an experiment in which parental report predicts infant performance in a referent identification task at 1 ; 6. Unlike in previous research of this kind (i.e. Houston-Price, Mather & Sakkalou, 2007), infants saw items only once, and image pairs were taxonomic sisters. The match between parental report and infant behaviour provides evidence of the item-level accuracy of both measures of lexical comprehension, and informs our understanding of how British parents interpret standardized Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs).

Vocabulary growth and composition in monolingual and bilingual Basque infants and toddlers

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Barnes ◽  
Iñaki Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
Threshold Value ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
Lexical Diversity ◽  
Monthly Data ◽  
Very Young Children ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
Vocabulary Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
Parental Reports

The question as to whether there is a threshold value for input below which bilinguals do not achieve a monolingual-like development often arises. Although input does not seem to be determining for learning syntax, according to Juan-Garau and Pérez-Vidal, the amount of vocabulary acquired is proportional to the time of exposure. This article contributes to the current discussion with data from very young children exposed either to monolingual input of Basque or to different degrees of bilingual input of Basque and Spanish/French. The corpus for the present investigation has been extracted from the adaptation to Basque of the MacArthur–Bates communicative development inventories 1 and 2 questionnaires based on parental reports. These questionnaires, adapted to more than 40 languages throughout the world ( www.sci.sdsu.edu/cdi ), involve monthly data collection from different children for each age interval between ages 8 and 30 months and have proved to be a powerful instrument to establish normal linguistic development and deviance at an early stage. This study finds that the development of productive vocabulary in the four input groups established follows the tendencies described by Bates et al. but at different paces corresponding to different vocabulary sizes. In other words, the ‘nominal bias’ lasts to a higher age in the lower input groups, and the lexical diversity appears earlier in the higher input groups. Furthermore, lexical verbs, not predicates, are analysed as a separate category based on the study by Barreña and Serrat, which showed a higher proportion of verbs appeared in Basque as compared to the surrounding Romance languages. This tendency towards the use of verbs is confirmed in the data collected from input groups with higher exposure to Basque.

Discrepancy between parental reports of infants' receptive vocabulary and infants' behaviour in a preferential looking task

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARMEL HOUSTON-PRICE ◽  
EMILY MATHER ◽  
ELENA SAKKALOU
Keyword(s):  
Receptive Vocabulary ◽  
Word Knowledge ◽  
Parental Report ◽  
Target Image ◽  
British English ◽  
Preferential Looking ◽  
Parental Reports ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Familiar Objects

ABSTRACTTwo experiments are described which explore the relationship between parental reports of infants' receptive vocabularies at 1 ; 6 (Experiment 1a) or 1 ; 3, 1 ; 6 and 1 ; 9 (Experiment 1b) and the comprehension infants demonstrated in a preferential looking task. The instrument used was the Oxford CDI, a British English adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI (Words & Gestures). Infants were shown pairs of images of familiar objects, either both name-known or both name-unknown according to their parent's responses on the CDI. At all ages, and on both name-known and name-unknown trials, preference for the target image increased significantly from baseline when infants heard the target's label. This discrepancy suggests that parental report underestimates infants' word knowledge.

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