Table 3.

Means and standard deviations for the normal hearing (NH) and hearing-impaired (HI) groups on the cognitive tests.

Test	NH		HI
	M	SD	M	SD
Reading span	41.52	8.88	39.46	10.14
Word comprehension	30.96	1.58	29.85	2.87
Non-word reading	28.22	9.00	25.23	6.90
Orthographic word-pseudohomophone discrimination	51.89	12.44	44.92	18.57
Letter fluency	30.85*	8.29	25.23*	7.73
Category fluency	56.52	11.86	51.23	8.76
Digit span forward	58.89	10.01	55.81	10.59

*p < 0.05.