Table 1.
Individual Participant Characteristics and Averages by Condition.
| Condition | Participant1 | Age2 | Sex | TEGI3 EGS % | TEGI4 3S | Spont.5 3S | PPVT6 SS | PPVT7 %ile | GFTA8 SS | GFTA9 %ile | MLU- Words10 |
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| Sparse | Sparse 3 | 4;0 | M | 23 | 25 | 45 | 90 | 25 | 110 | 71 | 3.70 |
| Sparse 4 | 4;7 | M | 15 | 30 | 37 | 108 | 70 | 95 | 33 | 3.66 | |
| Sparse 5 | 4;4 | M | 12 | 0 | 25 | 99 | 47 | 100 | 43 | 3.97 | |
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| Mean | 4;3 | NA | 17 | 20 | 36 | NA | NA | NA | NA | 3.78 | |
| Median | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 99 | 47 | 100 | 43 | NA | |
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| Dense | Dense 3 | 4;1 | F | 26 | 53 | 25 | 94 | 34 | 86 | 21 | 1.84 |
| Dense 4 | 5;9 | M | 16 | 12 | 23 | 103 | 58 | 74 | 9 | 3.88 | |
| Dense 5 | 4;2 | F | 19 | 11 | 15 | 84 | 14 | 84 | 17 | 3.28 | |
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| Mean | 4;7 | NA | 20 | 29 | 21 | NA | NA | NA | NA | 3.0 | |
| Median | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 94 | 34 | 84 | 17 | NA | |
Notes.
Subject pseudonyms correspond to child’s assigned treatment condition (sparse or dense) and number of baseline sessions completed (3, 4 or 5 sessions).
Chronological age in years; months.
Elicited Grammar Composite of the Test of Early Grammatical Impairment: Scores represent average % correct for third person singular, regular/irregular past tense, Copula BE and Auxiliary BE and DO.
TEGI third person singular probe: Score represents % correct for third person singular.
% correct third person singular during a spontaneous language sample.
Standard scores on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test 4th Edition (M = 100; SD = 15).
Percentile ranks on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test 4th Edition.
Standard scores on the Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation 2nd Edition (M = 100; SD = 15).
Percentile ranks on the Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation 2nd Edition.
MLU in words calculated from a 30-minute spontaneous language sample.