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Published in final edited form as: J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2013 May;34(4):245–251. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0b013e31828742fc

Table 2.

Expressive Language Scores and Reproducibility for Narration

Measure	Mean ± SD Test	Mean ± SD Retest	ICC^a	t test^b
Total Number of C-units	91.63 ± 45.91	87.68 ± 41.53	0.728^**	.303
MLU in Words	4.46 ± 2.05	4.56 ± 2.02	0.940^**	−.314
Proportion C-units with Mazes	0.19 ± 0.13	0.18 ± 0.12	0.788^**	.531
Proportion Unintelligible or Partly Unintelligible C-units	0.09 ± 0.11	0.10 ± 0.15	0.776^**	−.648
Number of Different Words Roots	87.57 ± 30.24	88.70 ± 28.20	0.928^**	−.358

n=34

Intraclass correlation coefficients between test and retest scores

Paired-sample t tests comparing test and retest means

p≤ .05,

^**

p<0.01