Table 1.

Groups characteristics

Control group
N	18
Age (years)	12.7±3 (8.7––17.7)
Gender (male:female)	9:9
Handedness (left:right)	2:16
T-SLI Group
N	21
Age (years)	11.4±3.3 (7––18)
Gender (male:female)	9:12
Handedness (left:right)	3:18
Intellectual indexes (WISC-IV)
Verbal index (VCI)	77.0±15.7 (45––112)
Non-verbal index (PRI)	90.0±13.1 (73––121)
Language z-scores (L2MA)*
Phonology (complex unfamiliar word repetition)	−2.4±1.7 (−6.9––0.4)
Vocabulary (picture naming)	−0.3±1.0 (−2.6––1.3)
Morphosyntactic integration (sentence completion)	−1.2±1.5 (−5.0––1.3)
Complex instructions comprehension	−0.2±1.1 (−2.2––1.7)
Morphosyntax-Comprehension (sentence-picture match)	−0.5±1.0 (−2.5––1.1)
Sentence repetition	−1.4±0.8 (−2.5––0.8)

Ranges are reported in brackets. Bold font indicates language scores <1 SD below the normal mean.

^*Including scores of the four youngest children who performed equivalent subtests from the Nouvelles Epreuves pour l’Evaluation du Langage (N-EEL; see text).

L2MA= battery Langage oral, Langage écrit, Mémoire, Attention; WISC-IV= Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth version; VCI and PRI= Verbal Comprehension and Perceptual Reasoning Indexes.