Table 6.
English and Russian performance for MB (score) at T2, compared with that of typically developing monolingual Russian children (means, standard deviations), matched to MB on word reading accuracy
| MB | MB | TDR | Point estimate1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measure (max score) | English | Russian | (n = 11) | (95% CI) |
| Syllable deletion (10) | 8 | 1 | 2.09 (1.81) | 28.85 (10.83–52.23) |
| Phoneme deletion (10) | 3 | 2 | 2.09 (1.87) | 48.21 (26.17–70.69) |
| Initial phoneme isolation (10) | 7 | 8 | 8.45 (1.57) | 39.47 (18.84–62.70) |
| Final phoneme isolation (10) | 9 | 6 | 6.36 (1.80) | 42.60 (21.41–65.62) |
| Letter‐sounds known (%) | 85% | 58% | — | — |
| Letter‐sound knowledge (33) | – | 19 | 28.55 (3.17) | 0.81 (0.00–5.78)* |
| Nonword reading (15) | 1 | 1 | 7.00 (1.83) | 0.61 (0.00–4.88)* |
| Word reading (15) | 4 | 4 | 5.00 (1.00) | 18.05 (4.31–40.06) |
Notes. 1Percentage of the Russian typically developing population aged 6 years estimated to perform below MB's score. CI = confidence interval.
* p < .05.