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The validity of a parent report instrument of child language at twenty months*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Philip S. Dale ,
Elizabeth Bates ,
J. Steven Reznick  and
Colleen Morisset
Philip S. Dale*
Affiliation:
University of Washington
Elizabeth Bates
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
J. Steven Reznick
Affiliation:
Yale University
Colleen Morisset
Affiliation:
University of Washington
*
Department of Psychology, University of WashingtonNI-25, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Abstract

When carefully assessed and analysed, parent report can provide a valuable overall evaluation of children's language at 20 months. Norming information and validity coefficients are presented here for a vocabulary checklist assessment included in the Early Language Inventory. Normative data are provided for fullterm, preterm, and precocious samples, including selected vocabulatory subsets that are indicative of early language learning style. The vocabulary checklist has substantial validity as indexed by correlations with the Bayley Scales of Infant Development and particularly with a language subscale derived from that test.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 1989 , pp. 239 - 249
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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Footnotes

*

The data forming the basis of the analyses of this paper were collected in projects supported by grants from the New England and Seattle Nodes of the John B. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Network on the Transition from Infancy to Childhood, and from the National Institute of Mental Health. We are grateful to Kathryn Barnard, Principal Investigator of NIMH grant MH 36894, ‘Clinical Nursing Model for Infants and Their Families’, for making the Early Language Inventory data for the Seattle Preterm, Fullterm, and Social Risk samples available for this project; and to Donna Thal for her helpful comments on the paper.

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