Table 1.
Means and standard deviations for audiologic measures and language abilities of younger and older adults.
| Younger adults |
Older adults |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | |
| Age (years) | 20 | 3 | 69 | 5 |
| Expressive Vocabulary | 103 | 7 | 111 | 14 |
| Word Reading | 104 | 7 | 109 | 10 |
| Better-ear PTA (dB) | 0 | 3 | 16 | 9 |
Note. Better-ear pure-tone average (PTA) is the PTA for the frequencies 500 Hz, 1000 Hz, 2000 Hz, and 4000 Hz, presented as decibel hearing level. Expressive Vocabulary and Word Reading scores are standardized, with population means of 100 and standard deviations of 15.