Table 2.

Pretraining reading measures averaged over the two pretraining time-points (t1 and t2) for patient and control groups

Measure	Patients mean (SD)	Controls mean (SD)	t
Texts, speed (wpm)	63.4 (32.0)	174.2 (25.7)	8.1***
Texts, accuracy (%)	95.2 (3.7)	99.2 (0.7)	3.2**
Words, speed (ms/word)	1308 (512)	497 (78)	4.7***
Words, accuracy (%)	91.0 (9.3)	99.1 (0.6)	2.7*
Word length effect (ms/letter)	173 (157)	1.12 (9.4)	3.3**
Letters, speed (ms/letter)	775 (321)	370 (77)	3.7**
Letters, accuracy (%)	99.0 (2.0)	99.8 (0.3)	1.4

Standard deviations are given in brackets.

T-statistics are reported from paired-subjects t-tests comparing patients and controls.

Wpm = words per minute.

*P < 0.05; **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.

n = 9 in each group.