Table 3.

Scores of Cochlear Implant Users on Language Measures

	N	Score	Mean	Standard Deviation	Range
Utterances per 30-Minute Language Sample			278.08	79.95	110 - 502
CLAN variables	76	Total Words	421.89	273.10	33 - 1316
	76	Different Root Words	110.92	52.75	9 - 251
	76	Bound Morphemes	26.99	28.82	0 - 127
	76	Different Morphemes	4.88	3.33	0 - 12
	76	Mean Length Utterance	1.82	.67	1 - 3.83
CDI variables	75	Vocabulary	362.43	182.41	8 - 679
	75	Irregular Words	6.64	6.90	0 - 25
	75	Sentence Complexity	13.16	11.95	0 - 37
	75	Longest Sentence	4.99	3.46	0 – 18.67
SECS variables	76	Receptive Scaled Score*	59.43	6.75	42 – 67
	76	Expressive Scaled Score*	65.97	9.29	34 - 82

^*Scaled scores re 3-year old hearing aid users (Mean=50; SD = 10)

Note: CLAN = Child Language Analysis programs for quantification of direct observation variables (MacWhinney, 1995); CDI = Communicative Development Inventory: CDI (Words and Sentences form; Fenson et al., 1993); SECS = Scales of Early Communication Skills for Hearing Impaired Children (Moog & Geers, 1975).