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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 23.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Lang. 2011 Oct 5;120(3):209–216. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.09.002

Table 1.

CELF scores ages 9 & 11, for both the full sample and the ERP sample

Age 9 (full sample)

Mean PCE
(N= 116)
Mean NDE
(N= 99)
t df p
Word Classes 6.98 7.73 2.08 214 0.04
Semantic Relations 7.41 8.47 2.62 214 0.01
Receptive language composite 83 88 2.16 213 0.03
Forming sentences 6.59 7.74 2.76 214 0.01
Sentence assembly 8.06 8.88 2.19 213 0.03
Expressive language composite 83.19 88.1 2.17 213 0.03
Total language composite 81.78 88.12 2.18 212 0.03
Age 11 (full sample)

Mean PCE
(N=218)
Mean NDE
(N= 67)
t df p
Word Classes 7.37 7.33 −0.11 284 0.91
Semantic Relations 8.63 8.02 1.37 282 0.17
Receptive language composite 84.56 87.64 1.18 283 0.24
Forming sentences 7.52 7.19 −0.80 284 0.43
Sentence assembly 9.12 9.51 0.83 283 0.41
Expressive language composite 87.74 87.69 −0.02 283 0.98
Total language composite 85.13 86.69 0.63 283 0.53
Age 9 (ERP sample)

Mean PCE
(N= 67)
Mean NDE
(N= 36)
t df p
Word Classes 6.64 7.44 2.50 102 0.12
Semantic Relations 7.58 8.14 0.87 102 0.35
Receptive language composite 82.31 87.14 2.09 102 0.15
Forming sentences 6.7 7.28 0.86 102 0.35
Sentence assembly 8.21 9.19 1.08 102 0.18
Expressive language composite 83.04 87.25 1.20 102 0.28
Total language composite 81.37 86.22 1.85 102 0.18
Age 11 (ERP sample)

Mean PCE
(N=93)
Mean NDE
(N= 45)
t df p
Word Classes 7.13 7.20 0.01 143 0.90
Semantic Relations 7.8 8.83 30.7 143 0.07
Receptive language composite 82.75 87.39 2.04 143 0.16
Forming sentences 7.24 7.51 0.06 143 0.81
Sentence assembly 9.10 9.90 1.75 143 0.18
Expressive language composite 85.29 88.22 0.99 143 0.33
Total language composite 82.85 86.90 1.75 143 0.19