OBJECTIVE: To investigate the usefulness of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development
Inventories -Korean (M-B CDI-K) short form as a
screening test in
children with
language developmental delay.
METHODS: From April 2010 to May 2012, a total of 87
patients visited the department of
physical medicine and rehabilitation of
National Health Insurance Service Ilsan
Hospital with the complaint of
language developmental delay and were enrolled in this study. All
patients took M-B CDI-K short form and Sequenced
Language Scale for
Infants (SELSI) or Preschool Receptive-Expressive
Language Scale (PRES) according to their age.
RESULTS: The study group consisted of 58
male patients and 29
female patients and the mean age was 25.9 months. The
diagnosis are global developmental delay in 26
patients , selective
language impairment in 31
patients ,
articulation disorder in 7
patients ,
cerebral palsy in 8
patients ,
autism spectrum disorder in 4
patients , motor developmental delay in 4
patients , and others in 7
patients . Seventy-one
patients are diagnosed with
language developmental delay in SELSI or PRES and of them showed 69
patients a high
risk in the M-B CDI-K short form. Sixteen
patients are normal in SELSI or PRES and of them showed 14
patients non-high
risk in the M-B CDI-K short form. The M-B CDI-K short form has 97.2%
sensitivity , 87.5%
specificity , a
positive predictive value of 0.97, and a
negative predictive value of 0.88.
CONCLUSION: The M-B CDI-K short form has a high
sensitivity and specificity so it is considered as an useful
screening tool in
children with
language developmental delay. Additional researches targeting normal
children will be continued to
supply the
specificity of the M-B CDI-K short form.