Table 2.
Demographic and descriptive information for preschool-age children who stutter (CWS) and preschool-age children who do not stutter (CWNS)
| CWS (N=40) | CWNS (N=46) | Sig. Δ (CWS vs. CWNS) | |||
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| M | SD | M | SD | ||
| Individual differences | |||||
| Age (months) | 46.7 | 6.4 | 46.3 | 7.3 | p=.41 |
| SES (4-factor score) | 42.7 | 12.3 | 44.9 | 10.5 | p=.34 |
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| Speech fluency | |||||
| Mean # stutterings | 8.6 | 4.9 | 1.3 | 0.7 | p<.001* |
| SSI Total | 18.9 | 5.8 | 7.1 | 1.9 | p<.001* |
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| Speech-language abilities | |||||
| TELD-Exp | 107.3 | 13.7 | 111.5 | 11.3 | p=.62 |
| TELD-Rec | 114.1 | 13.5 | 120.1 | 13.1 | p=.35 |
| GFTA-2 | 106.6 | 10.4 | 109.0 | 12.1 | p=.22 |
| PPVT-4 | 109.5 | 12.3 | 114.2 | 11.3 | p=.65 |
| EVT-2 | 112.6 | 11.8 | 118.9 | 10.8 | p=.71 |
Note: SES = socioeconomic status; TELD-Exp and TELD-Rec = Test of Early Language Development 3 – Expressive and Receptive subtests, respectively; GFTA-2 = Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation 2; PPVT-4 = Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test 4; EVT-2 = Expressive Vocabulary Test 2.
*
significant at p < .05.