Table 5.
Cross-tabulation of age 8 oral language status, age 2 word combining report, and mother's educational attainment for African American participants, with number of participants in each cell.
| Age 8 language | |||
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| Mother's education | Word combining at 2? | Typical | Weaka |
| High school or below | Not yet | 6 | 5 |
| Some | 10 | 6 | |
| Often | 11 | 5 | |
| Some college or above | Not yet | 3 | 2 |
| Some | 17 | 2 | |
| Often | 9 | 0 | |
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Children with weak oral language at age 8 scored 1 SD or more below the mean on at least 2 of 4 oral language measures, or 2 SD or more below the mean on 1 oral language measure (Cohen et al., 1993).Table 6