Table I.
Description of participants.
| SLI |
6N |
4N |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA | W | AA | W | AA | W | |
| Number per group | 6 | 10 | 12 | 24 | 15 | 16 |
| Age in months | 75.17 | 73.30 | 71.08 | 71.54 | 56.60 | 54.50 |
| (5.70) | (6.34) | (4.66) | (4.76) | (6.92) | (7.70) | |
| CMMSa | 94.50 | 92.60 | 102.92 | 103.04 | 92.17 | 101.38 |
| (5.75) | (3.95) | (11.81) | (9.00) | (9.95) | (15.29) | |
| PPVT-Rb | 71.67 | 77.10 | 90.08 | 101.67 | 82.73 | 94.62 |
| (4.18) | (5.92) | (9.60) | (14.21) | (13.06) | (11.86) | |
| TOLD-P:2c | 74.00 | 71.80 | 93.42 | 99.50 | 87.87 | 96.06 |
| (7.34) | (10.79) | (5.51) | (12.35) | (8.93) | (9.56) | |
| GFTAd | 1.21 | −.64 | .84 | 1.77 | .66 | .68 |
| Average z score | (1.33) | (1.25) | (.85) | (.78) | (.31) | (.88) |
| Percentile corresponding to average z score | 89 | 27 | 80 | 96 | 74 | 75 |
| CSSBe | 83.33 | 84.80 | 103.67 | 108.83 | 91.20 | 100.88 |
| (14.29) | (4.92) | (11.90) | (14.04) | (8.51) | (10.28) | |
Standard score on the Columbia Mental Maturity Scale (Burgmeister, Blum, & Lorge, 1972). Mean5100; SD = 15.
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test–Revised (Dunn & Dunn, 1987). Mean= 100; SD = 15.
Syntactic quotient of Test of Language Development-Primary: Second Edition (Newcomer & Hammill, 1988). Mean = 100; SD = 15.
Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation (Goldman & Fristoe, 1986). Z scores were used in the analyses. Percentiles that correspond to each group’s average z score are reported for descriptive purposes.
Comprehension subtest VI of the Stanford-Binet (Thorndike, Hagen, & Sattler, 1986). Mean = 100; SD = 16.