Using the Macarthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI'S) to assess the lexical development of cochlear implanted children.
BACKGROUND
Clinical demands motivated the use of the adapted form of The Macarthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI'S) to assess the lexical development of cochlear implanted children (CI).


OBJECTIVE
To present the application of Part I of the Protocol of Words and Sentences, adapted to the Brazilian Portuguese language, to follow lexical development.


METHODS
Two children, with ages of 2.3 and 3.9 years, implanted at 18 and 36 months respectively, were investigated.


RESULTS
Linguistic elements that have a function and/or meaning that are predominantly syntactic are used later than elements that have a concrete meaning.


CONCLUSIONS
The inventory of words facilitated the follow up of the lexical development of the children in this study.
Padovani
Carla Marcondes Affonso
CM
Universidade Federal da Bahia. carlapad@campus1.uneb.br
Teixeira
Elizabeth Reis
ER
D001184:Articulation Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000601:surgery; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019929:Cochlear Implantation / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D005868:Gestures; D006801:Humans; D007807:Language Tests; D008037:Linguistics; D014177:Translations; D016896:Treatment Outcome