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A screening version of the Swedish communicative development inventories designed for use with 18-month-old children.

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An instrument designed to assess young childrens 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 ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2002Oct in Journal: J Speech Lang Hear Res (Language : eng)

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1. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2002 Oct;45(5):948-60

A screening version of the Swedish communicative development inventories designed for use with 18-month-old children.

Eriksson M, Westerlund M, Berglund E

Department of Education and Psychology, University of Gävle, Sweden. marten.eriksson@hig.se

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.

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First Name	LastName	Initials
Mårten	Eriksson	M
Monica	Westerlund	M
Eva	Berglund	E

Affiliation: Department of Education and Psychology, University of Gävle, Sweden. marten.eriksson@hig.se

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