Scores on the MacArthur communicative development inventory of children from low- and middle-income families

被引:177
|
作者
Arriaga, RI
Fenson, L
Cronan, T
Pethick, SJ
机构
[1] San Diego State Univ, Dev Psychol Lab, San Diego, CA 92182 USA
[2] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
关键词
D O I
10.1017/S0142716400010043
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
This study compared the language skills in a group of very low-income toddlers with those of a middle-income sample matched on age and sex. The assessment instrument was the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) for toddlers, a parent report form. The scores for the low-income group were strikingly lower on the three key indices evaluated: size of expressive vocabulary, age of appearance of word combinations, and complexity of utterances. The entire low-income distribution was shifted about 30% toward the lower end of the middle-income distribution for both productive vocabulary and grammatical development. The magnitude of these income/social class effects was larger than reported in most prior reports for children in this age range. This finding underscores the cautionary note issued by the CDI developers, which states that the published CDI norms, based on a middle-class sample, may not be directly applicable to low-income samples.
引用
收藏
页码:209 / 223
页数:15
相关论文
共 50 条
  • [11] Height in healthy children in low- and middle-income countries: an assessment
    Karra, Mahesh
    Subramanian, S. V.
    Fink, Gunther
    AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION, 2017, 105 (01): : 121 - 126
  • [12] Health Insurance and Children in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Review
    Mitra, Sophie
    Palmer, Michael
    Pullaro, Shannon
    Mont, Daniel
    Groce, Nora
    ECONOMIC RECORD, 2017, 93 (302) : 484 - 500
  • [14] Research on Children With Cerebral Palsy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
    Leite, Hercules Ribeiro
    Jindal, Pranay
    Malek, Sandra Abdel
    Rosenbaum, Peter
    PEDIATRIC PHYSICAL THERAPY, 2022, 34 (04) : 551 - 555
  • [15] Children's palliative care in low- and middle-income countries
    Downing, Julia
    Powell, Richard A.
    Marston, Joan
    Huwa, Cornelius
    Chandra, Lynna
    Garchakova, Anna
    Harding, Richard
    ARCHIVES OF DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD, 2016, 101 (01) : 85 - 90
  • [16] Measuring the participation of children with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries
    Njelesani, Janet
    DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE AND CHILD NEUROLOGY, 2020, 62 (11): : 1230 - 1230
  • [17] PISA for low- and middle-income countries
    Bloem, Simone
    COMPARE-A JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, 2015, 45 (03) : 481 - 486
  • [18] Orthopaedics in low- and middle-income countries
    Andrew Quaile
    International Orthopaedics, 2022, 46 : 1 - 1
  • [19] Hypertension in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
    Schutte, Aletta E.
    Venkateshmurthy, Nikhil Srinivasapura
    Mohan, Sailesh
    Prabhakaran, Dorairaj
    CIRCULATION RESEARCH, 2021, 128 (07) : 808 - 826
  • [20] Orthopaedics in low- and middle-income countries
    Quaile, Andrew
    INTERNATIONAL ORTHOPAEDICS, 2022, 46 (01) : 1 - 1