de l’Enfant (IDE)

The aim of this study was to determine the French norms and examine the validity of a parent-report inventory: the Child Development Inventory (CDI), called “Inventaire du Développement de l’Enfant (IDE) ” in French. This assesses the general level of a child’s development in 8 developmental domains. The norms were determined for a community sample of 1287 children, aged 15 to 72 months. The score for the CDI general development scale correlates closely with chronological age (r =.89). The intra- and interobserver (mother vs teacher) agreements were.97 and.76. The 1-year stability coefficient between the developmental quotient (DQ) values was.81. Correlation between the DQ (CDI) and the IQ of psychometric individual test was high (r =.84). The sensitivity and specificity for detectin