1                                              Bates and Kleckner have recently proposed that bacterial

2 of 42 cases (eyes) that received BGI at Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital between February 1, 2011, and J

3                        The data presented by Bates and Kleckner do not support the proposal that init

4                         The studyMcCarthy M, Bates C, Elson N, Hunt S, Milne-Skillman, Forrester-Jone

5 fant Development II (BSID-II), the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI), and t

6 iour Scales, 2nd edition (VABS-2), MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (MCDI), and Pa

7 s of one caregiver-report measure (MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory [CDI]) and use

8 , language, and social skills; the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) to ass

9 DI-1, CDI-3.5) and at 2 y with the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MB-2), and

10 tal Assessment Tool (MDAT) and the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MCAB-CDI).

11 ures of early language skills (the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventories; MBCDI) as

12                                   Tamblyn R, Bates DW, Buckeridge DL, et al.

13                                 Henry Walter Bates, discoverer of Batesian mimicry, voiced his suppor