Journal article
The Concurrent Validity of the Minnesota Child Development Inventory as a Measure of Young Children's Language Development
The Journal of speech and hearing disorders, Vol.54(1), pp.101-105
02/1989
DOI: 10.1044/jshd.5401.101
PMID: 2915520
Abstract
The extent to which the Minnesota Child Development Inventory (MCDI), could be used to estimate levels of language development in 2-year-old children was examined. Fifty-seven children between 23 and 28 months were given the Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development (SICD), and at the same time a parent completed the MCDI. In addition the mean length of utterance (MLU) was obtained for each child from a spontaneous speech sample. The MCDI Expressive Language scale was found to be a strong predictor of both the SICD Expressive scale and MLU. The MCDI Comprehension-Conceptual scale, presumably a receptive language measure, was moderately correlated with the SICD Receptive scale; however, it was also strongly correlated with the expressive measures. These results demonstrated that the Expressive Language scale of the MCDI was a valid predictor of expressive language for 2-year-old children. The MCDI Comprehension-Conceptual scale appeared to assess both receptive and expressive language, thus complicating its interpretation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Concurrent Validity of the Minnesota Child Development Inventory as a Measure of Young Children's Language Development
- Creators
- J. Bruce Tomblin - University of Iowa, Iowa CityCynthia M Shonrock - University of Iowa, Iowa CityJames C Hardy - University of Iowa, Iowa City
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of speech and hearing disorders, Vol.54(1), pp.101-105
- DOI
- 10.1044/jshd.5401.101
- PMID
- 2915520
- ISSN
- 0022-4677
- eISSN
- 2163-6184
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/1989
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070278702771
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