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Published in final edited form as: J Am Acad Audiol. 2015 Nov-Dec;26(10):807–814. doi: 10.3766/jaaa.14093

Table 4.

Infant characteristic comparisons for speech discrimination performance subgroups.

Contrast		Criterion	No Criterion
*/a/-/i/*	Sample Size - No	20	1
	Age (months) – Mean (SD)	10.49 (2.79)	6.00 (N/A)
	Threshold (dBA) – Mean (SD)	5.25 (4.72)	15 (N/A)
	Maximum SL (dBA) – Mean (SD)	50.25 (9.39)	55 (N/A)
*/ba/-/da/*	Sample Size - No	15	6
	Age (months) – Mean (SD)	10.79 (2.63)	9.00 (3.35)
	Threshold (dBA) – Mean (SD)	6.00 (5.07)	5.00 (5.48)
	Maximum SL (dBA) – Mean (SD)	51.33 (9.54)	65.00 (5.48)

Note. Infants who did not reach criterion for one or both contrasts by the end of data collection did not significantly differ from each other in age, gender, or audiometric thresholds. N/A= not applicable