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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory"”.
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Towards the Development of an IsiXhosa Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory for Toddlers
… rural, toddler pilot for the adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) into Southern African languages. 1 The adaptation stems from the growing dissatisfaction regarding the dearth of speech and language assessments and therapeutic tools currently available in …
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Early Lexical and Grammatical Development of Xitsonga Spoken in Giyani, Limpopo Using the Adapted Xitsonga MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Toddlers Form A Preliminary Study
… aimed to describe the early lexical and grammar development of Xitsonga-speaking children, aged 16 to 32 months. The study objectives were to describe 1) the outcomes of the adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (MB-CDI) for Xitsonga speakers 2) the relationship …
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The EIIOS Task: Executive Function and Word Learning at 18-months
… executive functioning (EF) ability and language development in the latter half of the second year. Fifty-five typically developing 18- month-olds were brought into the lab. The elicited imitation with inappropriate object substitution (EIIOS) task was used as a developmentally sensitive measure …
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An investigation of the language and communication characteristics observed in children with Smith-Magenis syndrome
… effectiveness and validity of the Language Use Inventory (LUI) as a reliable measure for identifying speech and language delays, which was analyzed in comparison to the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI). Results identified commonalities and differences in both language …
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Language acquisition in Setswana speaking infants aged 8 to 18 months
… gap, teams from southern Africa are adapting the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) for local languages. The CDI is an assessment tool completed by parents, which gauges a child's gestures and receptive and expressive vocabulary. This study aimed to adapt and pilot the first …
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Fetal Biometry and Early Behavioural Development
… of the latter as an influence of brain development and for a number of autistic traits postnatally. The fetuses were assessed using ultrasound at 12-, 20- and between 26-30 weeks gestation and followed up at 18-20 months’ of age to see if these fetal biometric measurements are associated …
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Towards Validation of South African Communicative Development Inventories: An object naming/identification task for South African English and Afrikaans
… A recent project in South Africa has led to the development of Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDIs) in several of the country's official languages. MB-CDIs are parent-report questionnaires about young children's language acquisition. It is challenging to validate these MB-CDIs in the …