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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2007 Aug;50(4):968–981. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2007/068)

Table 5.

Means and standard deviations of English Morphosyntax Test (E-MST) scores and percentages of children correctly classified as having typical language development (TLD) or language impairment (LI) across Southwestern English-only proficient (SW EP), Southwestern English-dominant bilingual (SW EDB), and Northeastern (NE) samples.

TLD
LI
Classification M SD M SD Sensitivity Specificity
SW EP 0.77 0.14 0.38 0.17 82.1% (23/28) 89.3% (25/28)
SW EDB 0.79 0.13 0.39 0.22 80% (8/10) 90% (9/10)
NE 0.64 0.20 0.38 0.20 85.7% (12/14) 61.9 % (13/21)