The royalties received from the sale of the CDI instruments are placed in a nonprofit account at the San Diego State University Foundation and are used to fund further research, assessment, and applications of the CDI instruments. Funding decisions are made by the board, which meets annually. The members of the board are:

Larry Fenson (Chair, Advisory Board) Department of Psychology San Diego State University lfenson@sunstroke.sdsu.edu	Elizabeth Bates In Memoriam: 1947-2003
Philip S. Dale Department of Communication Science and Disorders University of Missouri-Columbia dalep@unm.edu	Virginia A. Marchman Department of Psychology Stanford University marchman@psych.stanford.edu
Donna Jackson University of Queretaro Mexico djackson@uaq.mx	J. Steven Reznick Department of Psychology University of North Carolina reznick@unc.edu
Donna Thal Department of Communicative Disorders San Diego State University dthal@mail.sdsu.edu