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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: Aphasiology. 2010 Oct;24(10):1242–1266. doi: 10.1080/02687030903474255

Table 4.

Pre- and post-treatment data derived from narrative analysis for participants trained with Sentactics® (S1-S6) and control participants (C1-C6).

S1 S2 S3 S5 S6 Mean
Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post

MLU 2.29 2.72 4.65 5.13 5.25 7.7 7.15 7.45 4.6 7 4.79 6
WPM 10.71 19.61 63.33 77.17 55.53 49.38 82.57 86.86 25.71 74.47 47.6 52
Noun:Verb Ratio 1.88 1.58 1.44 1.63 1.01 1.57 0.91 1.49 0.76 0.67 1.2 1.39
Open: Closed Class Ratio 1.86 1.84 2.77 1.92 1.48 1.36 0.80 1.02 1.03 0.84 1.59 1.40
% Grammatical sentences 29 21 23 27 64 48 41 51 76 67 46.7 42
Complex:Simple Sentence Ratio 0 0.15 0.77 1.36 0.27 0.28 0.48 0.5 0.30 0.91 0.36 0.64
% Verbs with correct arguments 62 25 66 59 78 91 66 86 82 88 71 70

C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 Mean
Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post

MLU 4.9 5.2 4.44 4.18 6.34 5.99 7.05 7.01 3.30 3.31 6.29 6.88 5.39 5.47
WPM 28.95 30.08 44.33 46.5 59.9 50.09 77.50 80.21 16.4 14.04 44.97 46.02 45.34 44.49
Noun:Verb Ratio 1.20 1.34 1.49 1.44 2.10 2.3 0.99 0.92 2.01 1.98 1.12 1.13 1.46 1.52
Open: Closed Class Ratio 1.13 1.02 1.69 1.82 1.36 1.36 0.92 1.02 2.06 2.22 1.34 1.02 1.42 1.41
% Grammatical sentences 75 72 36 33 49 48 47 44 22 19 44 46 45.5 43.66
Complex:Simple Sentence Ratio 0.40 0.28 0.65 0.59 0.45 0.42 0.50 0.48 0.18 0.15 .67 .65 .48 .43
% Verbs with correct arguments 39 41 62 61 77 76 84 82 61 61 55 49 63 61.66