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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Lang. 2011 Nov 29;39(4):835–862. doi: 10.1017/S0305000911000365

Table 1.

The Means (M), Standard Deviations (SD), and Range of Ages, Tests, and other Measures for the Typically Developing (TD) and Specific Language Impairment (SLI) Groups

Significant differences Non-significant differences

Group Age 1 TEGI EGC 2 TEGI 3S 3 TEGI PT 4 TEGI BE 5 TEGI DO 6 Spont. 3S 7 PPVT SS 8 GFTA 9 RIAS 10 PPVT RS 11 MLU
TD
 M 3;3 61 53 50 79 61 63 114 104 118 65 3.65
 SD 0;4 9 15 18 17 32 20 10 12 14 12 .74
 Range 2;11 – 3;11 49 – 83 20 – 78 11 – 75 44 – 100 0 – 100 33 – 100 100 – 138 85 – 124 92 – 140 52 – 93 2.21 – 5.83
SLI
 M 4;9 30 32 23 51 15 35 96 90 111 74 3.72
 SD 0;8 15 22 20 26 24 24 11 13 16 20 .67
 Range 4;0 – 6;1 12 – 59 0 – 70 0 – 61 0 – 100 0 – 80 0 – 81 76 – 118 64 – 110 89 – 142 45 – 105 1.84 – 4.77

Note. TEGI = Test of Early Grammatical Impairment. All TEGI scores represent percent correct.

1

TEGI EGC = TEGI Elicited Grammar Composite;

2

TEGI 3S = TEGI Third Person Singular Probe;

3

TEGI PT = Regular and Irregular Past Tense Probe;

4

TEGI BE = Copula and Auxiliary Be probe;

5

TEGI DO = Auxiliary Do probe.

6

Spont. 3S = Percent accuracy third person singular during a spontaneous language sample.

7

PPVT SS = Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4th Edition Standard Score (M = 100; SD = 15).

8

GFTA = Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation – 2nd Edition Standard Score (M = 100, SD = 15).

9

RIAS = Reynold’s Intellectual Assessment Scale Standard Score (M = 100, SD = 15).

10

PPVT RS = Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Raw Score Raw Score.

11

MLU = Mean Length of Utterance in words based on a 30-minute spontaneous language sample of complete and intelligible utterances.