CDI Vignettes
CDI Vignettes

Summary/Abstract: The development of CDI instruments for various languages and cultures has been at the heart of the first ten European Network Meetings on Communicative Development Inventories, held in Dubrovnik from 2006 to 2026. Although development might have proceeded much faster if everyone had spoken a common language such as European, the richness that diverse languages and cultures have brought to the field would have been lost. Children’s language is shaped by universal, language-specific, and individual features, and the many adaptations of the CDI instruments to specific languages provide opportunities to distinguish among these three levels. Moreover, the instruments are also useful alongside other measures in clinical work, which often includes various forms of bilingualism. This supplement presents descriptions of 26 CDI instruments adapted to different languages, including a brief background and the populations investigated.

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