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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 May 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 2006 Oct;149(4):490–498. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2006.06.007

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.