Pregledni rad

https://doi.org/10.31299/hrri.62.si.11

Longitudinal tracking of vocabulary development in children with neurodevelopmental and genetic disorders using Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs)

Zuzanna Laudańska ; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systemic Ethology and Developmental Science, Heidelberg; Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Patrice Van Der Venne ; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systemic Ethology and Developmental Science, Heidelberg
Helena Preis ; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systemic Ethology and Developmental Science, Heidelberg
Clara Hochreiter ; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systemic Ethology and Developmental Science, Heidelberg
Pauline Krieger ; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systemic Ethology and Developmental Science, Heidelberg
Steffi Sachse ; Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany
Luise Poustka ; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systemic Ethology and Developmental Science, Heidelberg
Dajie Zhang ; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systemic Ethology and Developmental Science, Heidelberg; iDN – interdisciplinary Developmental Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Peter B. Marschik orcid.org/0000-0001-8932-0980 ; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systemic Ethology and Developmental Science, Heidelberg; iDN – interdisciplinary Developmental Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Austria; Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (KIND), Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Centre for Psychiatry Research, Karolinska Institutet and Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen and German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ), Göttingen, Germany *

* Dopisni autor.

Sažetak

MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) are widely used to assess early language development and identify language delay in children, including those with neurodevelopmental and genetic conditions. This vignette reviews studies that used repeated CDI assessments to track expressive vocabulary growth over time. We identified 13 longitudinal studies including participants with autism, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, and other rare genetic conditions. The results show that, across different conditions, expressive vocabulary development was delayed and highly heterogeneous, but few studies included more than two time points, hence limiting inferences about non-linear trajectories, plateaus, or regression. The review highlights both the potential and current limitations of CDI-based longitudinal data and underscores the need for harmonised, multi-timepoint study designs in order to better characterise expressive language development in atypical populations.

Ključne riječi

Autism; Down syndrome; Williams syndrome; Angelman syndrome; 5p-deletion syndrome; vocabulary; language; Communicative Development Inventories

Hrčak ID:

346303

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/346303

Datum izdavanja:

15.4.2026.

Posjeta: 154 *