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Table 3 The correlation between the scores of each item of the checklist and total

From: The early communicative skills among a sample of Egyptian infants and toddlers

Dimensions

Cronbach’s α

Shared positive affect and shared attention

0.808

Initiation of joint attention

0.815

Gesture use score

0.856

Expressive language score

0.816

Language comprehension score

0.765

Object use score

0.837

Social interaction score

0.863

  1. The table shows the reliability co-efficiency between each scale score and the total scale score. The correlation is significant between all of the scale score and the total score. Such result is denoting inter-correlation between the checklist scales
  2. Acceptable when α ≥ 0.7 and < 0.8
  3. Good when ɑ ≥ 0.8 and < 0.9
  4. Excellent when ɑ ≥ 0.9