Parental reports on language development in toddlers and preschoolers based on the Croatian version of Communicative Development Inventories III.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Previous studies have focused on understanding parental attempts to record language development in children, across many typologically different languages. However, many of these studies restricted their assessment to children up to the age of 3 years. The aim of this paper was to move this boundary by examining language development in typically language developed children older than 3 years.

Methods

Using the Croatian version of the Communicative Development Inventories III (CDI-III-HR), we investigated the contribution of parental reports of a child's lexical, grammatical, and metalinguistic awareness abilities to general language abilities assessed by clinicians. Participants included the parents of 151 children between the ages of 30 to 48 months, who comple

SUBMITTER: Smit Brlekovic L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10397412 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature