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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism Res. 2008 Oct 1;1(4):208–222. doi: 10.1002/aur.38

Table 3. CDI Scores across Visits.

Visit 1 Visit 2 Visit 3 Visit 4a

Infant Form Toddler Form Toddler Form Toddler Form / CDI-III
M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD)
Range Range Range Range Range
CDI - ASD
Total Words Produced 102.70 223.07 306.66 48.00 60.60
(96.75) (191.13) (224.16) (83.95) (12.44)
0-258 0-548 0-580 0-197 45-74
Count-Nouns Produced 55.35 120.42 132.92 24.80 23.60
(58.14) (102.34) (105.05) (12.44) (48.33)
0-159 0-262 0-291 0-98 14-31
CDI - TYP
Total words produced 118.5 335.53 503.8 68.00
(114.4) (159.08) (156.65) (27.01)
8-316 100-601 138-657 22-99
Count-Nouns Produced 76.00 185.57 258.06 26.00
(73.18) (76.05) (44.28) (6.87)
2-210 61-272 195-311 22-32

Note: “Total Understands and Says” from the Infant Form, and “Total Words Produced” from the Toddler Form and Level III forms are presented in this table. Maximum number of words that a child can produce on CDI Infant Form is 396, on Toddler Form is 680, and on Level III is 100.

a

The Toddler Form was used for children with ASD who had produced fewer than 250 words at Visit 3 (n = 5), and the Level III was used for children with ASD whose vocabularies had included more than 250 words at Visit 3 (n = 9). The Level III form was used for all of the TYP children.