Is anyone familiar with the MacArthur-Bates CDI Words and Gestures booklet?
The booklet contains a mountain of questions around the understanding of language and the imitation of words. It asks whether your child can understand things like "are you hungry?" "come here" don't touch" and my personal favourite: "time to go night night". It also goes through a vocabulary checklist and you're meant to indicate whether your child understands a particular word or if he understands & can say the word. Same for pronouns, prepositions, quantifiers etc.. Our son is meant to repeat this test in 6 months to monitor any improvement. It will be interesting to see if the supplements help boost his score.
Our developmental pediatrician asked us to complete it about two months ago but we haven't done anything with it yet. Every time I open it, I feel anxious and a little nauseous so I close it and ignore it for another little while. I guess, in a sense, we don't need to complete it because out of all the items listed (at least 150)we can't check off a single one! Still, he does understand some things that just don't happen to be in that godforsaken booklet. I'm pretty sure he understands "snack" "drink your milk" "blueberries" "no" and "up".
According to MacArthur-Bates, "before children begin to speak, they show signs of understanding language by responding to familiar words and phrases". Looks like we have a long road ahead of us but my sleeves are rolled up and I'm ready to give it my all.
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