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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Educ Psychol. 2012 Feb;104(1):10.1037/a0025323. doi: 10.1037/a0025323

Table 8.

Class Count, Percentage, and Population Estimate for Latent Classes as a Function of Kindergarten Language Classification

Kindergarten Language Classification
Class TL (n=246) SLI (n=100) NLI (n=72) SCD (n=75)
TD
    Count 185 30 12 29
    Percentage 72.3 11.7 4.7 11.3
    Population Estimate 87.8 3.3 2.1 6.9
LERD-W
    Count 11 9 3 6
    Percentage 37.9 31.0 10.3 20.7
    Population Estimate 62.5 16.7 4.2 16.7
LERD-C
    Count 13 16 8 14
    Percentage 25.5 31.4 15.7 27.5
    Population Estimate 42.9 17.1 14.3 25.7
LERD-CW
    Count 3 4 3 3
    Percentage 23.1 30.3 23.1 23.1
    Population Estimate 50.0 12.5 12.5 25.0
EIRD
    Count 30 39 44 20
    Percentage 22.6 29.3 33.1 15.0
    Population Estimate 43.9 17.1 23.2 15.9
LETD
    Count 4 2 2 3
    Percentage 36.4 18.2 18.2 27.3
    Population Estimate 55.6 11.1 11.1 22.2

TD = typically developing; LERD = late emerging RD; EIRD = early identified RD; LETD = late emerging typically developing; TL=typical language; SLI = specific language impairment; NLI = nonspecific language impairment; SCD = specific nonverbal cognitive deficit; W = word reading only; C= comprehension only; CW = comprehension + word reading;