Adaptation of the MacArthur CDI to Galician: Normative results and reliability analysis

PÉREZ PEREIRA, M.; GARCÍA SOTO, X.R.; FORJÁN, M; RESCHES, M.

Madison

Congreso; 9th International Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language; 2002

The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) have emerged as a useful instrument for the study of linguistic and communicative development in recent years. CDI offer a number of advantages for the assessment of young children´s early capacities: Parents provide reliable and representative information of their young children´s linguistic capacities.CDI scales are easy to apply.Their cost is very reduced.CDI can be applied to large samples.Risk of subjectivity, which usually affects parent reports, can be overcome by uing precise items.The CDIs are a reliable and valid instruments (Fenson et al., 1993; 1994) that have been adapted to over 25 languages around the world.In this poster we present data of the adaptation of these scales to Galician, a minority language spoken in Galicia, Spain.