Table III. Measures of language processing.
| Preterm
(n = 14) |
Term
(n = 10) |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CELF | |||
| Receptive language | 92.3 ± 18.5 | 111.3 ± 17.0 | .049 |
| Expressive language | 88.7 ± 20.6 | 111.2 ± 12.6 | .016 |
| Total score | 89.4 ± 19.9 | 111.3 ± 13.4 | .021 |
| Gray Silent Reading | |||
| Silent reading quotient | 87.3 ± 18.5 | 113.8 ± 18 | .015 |
| TOWRE | |||
| Sight word efficiency | 96.0 ± 4.5 | 108.0 ± 12.8 | .041 |
| Phonemic decoding | 96.8 ± 10.7 | 106.9 ± 16.5 | .084 |
| CTOPP | |||
| Rapid digit naming* | 9.2 ± 1.6 | 10.2 ± 2.9 | .195 |
| Nonword repetition* | 10.0 ± 1.6 | 10.3 ± 2.7 | .943 |
| Rapid letter naming* | 9.3 ± 2.5 | 10.8 ± 3.5 | .158 |
| Rapid name comp. | 95.3 ± 11.8 | 103.0 ± 18.6 | .142 |
| P PVT-R | |||
| P PVT-R | 93.6 ± 20.4 | 112.9 ± 19.3 | .038 |
Subtest standard score with a mean of 10 and SD of 3.