NOMING STUDY OF CHINESE COMMUNICATIVE DEVELOPMENT
INVENTORY –MANDARIN VERSION
Liang Weilan1, Hao Bo1,
Wang Shuang1, Zhang Zhixiang1, Zuo Qihua1,
Tardif T2, Fletcher P 3
1 Peking University First
Hospital, Beijing, China
2 The Chinese University
of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
3 University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong, China
Objective: To conduct a norming
study of Chinese Communicative Development Inventory (CCDI) and to study
Chinese children’s language development.
Method: Based on the MacArthur
Communicative Development Inventory (MCDI) and naturalistic studies of
Chinese children‘s language development, the Chinese Communicative
Development Inventory (CCDI) was developed. The CCDI includes two forms,
one for infants, another for toddlers. Parents of 1691 infants and
toddlers, aged 8~30 months, were asked to report their children’s language
abilities.
Results: 8-month old children
can understand, on average, 99 words. The mean age at which children start
to talk is 9~10 months. 16 month-old children can understand 314 words and
can say 78 words, whereas 30 month-old children can say 709 words. For both
the infant and toddler forms, the mean production scores tended to be
higher for females than for males of the same age, with the means, for
males lagging by one or two months. However, no sex differences were
reported for comprehension of words.
Conclusions: CCDIs is a useful and
convenient tools for measurement early development of Chinese children ’s
communicative competence.