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

J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2000 Oct;43(5):1087-100. doi: 10.1044/jslhr.4305.1087.

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Child Language*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Language
  • Linguistics*
  • Male
  • Parents*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Verbal Behavior
  • Vocabulary*