Research article summary (published 29 Sep 2000):

Validity of a parent-report measure of vocabulary and grammar for Spanish-speaking toddlers.

Full Abstract

The validity of the Fundación MacArthur Inventario del Desarrollo de Habilidades Comunicativas: Palabras y Enunciados (IDHC:PE) was examined with twenty 20- and nineteen 28-month-old, typically developing, monolingual, Spanish-speaking children living in Mexico. One measure of vocabulary (number of words) and two measures of grammar (mean of the three longest utterances and grammatical complexity score) from the IDHC:PE were compared to behavioral measures of vocabulary (number of different words from a language sample and number of objects named in a confrontation naming task) and one behavioral measure of grammar (mean length of utterance from a language sample). Only vocabulary measures were assessed in the 20-month-olds because of floor effects on the grammar measures. Results indicated validity for assessing expressive vocabulary in 20-month-olds and expressive vocabulary and grammar in 28-month-olds.

Author information

Author/s: Thal, D (D); Jackson-Maldonado, D (D); Acosta, D (D);

Affiliation: Department of Communicative Disorders, San Diego State University, CA 92120-1850, USA. dthal(-atsign-)mail.sdsu.edu

Grants: DC00089 (Agency:NIDCD NIH HHS) ; DC00482 (Agency:NIDCD NIH HHS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

Journal: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR (J Speech Lang Hear Res), published in UNITED STATES. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2000-Oct; vol 43 (issue 5) : pp 1087-100

Dates: Created 2001/03/09; Completed 2001/05/31; Revised 2007/11/14;

PMID: 11063232, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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Child Language Child, Preschool Female Humans Language Linguistics

Male Parents Questionnaires Reproducibility of Results Verbal Behavior Vocabulary

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