Table 2.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of children with CP at 4 years of age (in months) by speech language profile group (time 5).
| ANAR n = 11 |
SMI-LCI n = 4 |
SMI-LCT n = 11 |
NSMI n = 4 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean Age (SD) | 50.6 (1.8) | 50.8 (2.06) | 49.6 (1.29) | 48.3 (.5) |
| Male: Female ratio | 7: 4 | 1: 3 | 4: 7 | 3: 1 |
| Type of CP | ||||
| Spastic | ||||
| Diplegia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Hemiplegia (left) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Hemiplegia (right) | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Triplegia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quadriplegia | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| GMFCS at 4 years | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| I | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| II | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| III | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| IV | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| V | ||||
| Standard language comprehension score at 4 years (SD)* |
50.0 (0) | 75.3 (17.6) | 97.5 (10.0) | 104.5 (10.1) |
| Single word intelligibility score (%) at 4 years (SD) |
NA | 35.1 (17.5) | 37.5 (23.2) | 69.0 (2.4) |
| Age at which child began producing single words** |
0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| 24–29 mos | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| 30–35 mos | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 36–41 mos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 42–47 mos | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 48–53 mos | ||||
| Longest utterance (words) at 4 years of age (SD) |
NA | 2.8 (2.1) | 3.9 (2.0) | 6.0 (1.4) |
*
Language comprehension standard scores were obtained from the Test of Auditory Comprehension of Language – 3, or from the Preschool Language Scale - 4
**
Note that age at which child began producing single words is not reported for children who were not talking by the 48–53 month data collection session.