Table 1. Demographic and clinical data of children in the intervention group, the waiting group and a reference language-normal group.
Intervention group, n = 24(13 males/11 females) | Waiting group,n = 23(11 males/12 females) | Fisher’s exact test* | LN group,n = 36(20 males/16 females) | |
Birth order, % | 0.22 NS | |||
First born | 20.8 | 43.5 | 41.7 | |
Second born | 62.5 | 39.1 | 50.0 | |
Third or fourth born | 16.7 | 17.4 | 8.3 | |
Family history of SLD (1st degree), % | 50.0 | 43.5 | 0.77 NS | 2.8 |
Age of mothers at birth, mean (SD), years:months | 32:1 (3:8) | 33:7 (4:3) | 31:7 (4:4) | |
Maternal school education (years in school), % | 0.58 NS | |||
No/low graduation (8–9) | 12.5 | 8.7 | 11.1 | |
Middle school graduation (10) | 37.5 | 56.5 | 47.2 | |
High school graduation (13) | 50.0 | 34.8 | 41.7 | |
Maternal work situation, % | 0.57 NS | |||
Full time employment | 8 | 4 | 3 | |
Part time employment | 38 | 52 | 44 | |
House wife | 54 | 44 | 53 |
*Comparison of intervention and waiting group.
LN, language-normal; NS, not significant; SLD, speech and language disorder.