Table 4.
Parental characteristics in relation to the child's outcome at 4 years
| Characteristica | Status, mean ± SD |
t (d.f. = 72) |
P | Cohen d | |
| TD, n = 60 | SLI, n = 14b | ||||
| Age of mother at end of FTE, years | 22.06 ± 3.6 | 20.93 ± 2.92 | 1.09 | 0.279 | 0.33 |
| Parent non-word repetition, time 1c | 11.17 ± 2.63 | 9.00 ± 2.57 | 2.79 | 0.007 | 0.84 |
| Parent non-word repetition time 2c | 12.71 ± 1.93 | 12.53 ± 2.26 | 0.31 | 0.758 | 0.09 |
| Mill-Hill vocabulary, time 2, raw | 44.73 ± 7.32 | 43.07 ± 8.05 | 0.75 | 0.457 | 0.23 |
aAbbreviations: FTE, full-time education; SLI, specific language impairment; TD, typical development.
bParental data not available for one SLI case.
c Scaled score, mean ± 10 ± 3.