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. 2025 Aug 18;68(9):4337–4357. doi: 10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00076

Table 1.

Participants' demographics.

Variable Research Question 1
DTHC data set (n = 114)
DM data set (n = 186)
CL data set (n = 109)
Total (N = 409)
n % M SD n % M SD n % M SD n % M SD
Age 69.29 10.08 69.27 4.81 69.85 4.49 69.43 6.63
Female 59 52 91 49 55 51 205 50
Spanish exposure 54.53 21.21 51.01 17.30 45.99 28.00 50.55 21.87
Maternal education 2.75 1.98 2.69 1.65 2.95 1.76 2.76 1.75
Participant with DLD 20 18 21 11 16 15 57 14

Research Question 2
Additional Spanish-only participants (n = 326) Total Spanish participants (N = 735) Additional English-only participants (n = 296) Total English participants (N = 705)

Variable

n

%

M

SD

n

%

M

SD

n

%

M

SD

n

%

M

SD
Age 64.05 10.07 67.03 8.76 64.44 10.33 67.68 8.46
Female 159 49 364 50 152 51 357 51
Spanish exposure 76.42 20.14 60.10 24.64 19.84 19.46 39.58 25.67
Maternal education 3.29 1.64 2.98 1.73 2.59 1.87 2.71 25.67
Participant with DLD 61 19 118 16 74 25 131 19

Note. Maternal education: 1 = less than seventh-grade education, 2 = ninth-grade education, 3 = partial high school, 4 = high school graduate, 5 = partial college or specialized training, 6 = college degree, and 7 = graduate degree. DTHC = Development of a Test for Hispanic Children in the U.S.; DM = Diagnostic Marker of Language Impairment; CL = Cross-Language Outcomes of Typical and Atypical Development in Bilinguals; DLD = developmental language disorder.