The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDIs)

are parent report instruments which capture important information about children's developing abilities in early language, including vocabulary comprehension, production, gestures, and grammar.

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Tired of paper and scoring forms by hand?! Good news! The MacArthur-Bates CDIs can now be administered through our online platform, Web-CDI. Caregivers complete forms on their own computer/tablet and scoring is automatic! Click below for information about licensing and fees.

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The CDI Scoring program is a free, downloadable Windows-based database application (Access, Word, Excel) which enables users to track CDI administrations, score responses, look-up percentiles, and generate user-friendly summary reports.

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Introducing CDI-CAT, a short, adaptive screening tool that uses item-response theory to select the most appropriate items for each child. Administration requires only about 5 minutes! Available in English and Mexican Spanish for a modest annual fee; Other languages are free of charge. Click below for a link to Web-CDI for more information.

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Wordbank compiles responses from many different CDI administrations in dozens of languages, providing exciting new resources for the construction of crosslinguistic lexical norms. Click below to learn about our latest developments!