TABLE 3.

Mean Difference From Unadjusted Linear Regression and Odds Ratio (OR) From Unadjusted Logistic Regression Comparing CI Recipients Exposed to Sign Language to the No Sign (Reference) Group

	No Sign (Ref)	Short-term Sign vs No Sign (Ref)			Long-term Sign vs No Sign (Ref)
Standard Scores	Mean SS	Mean Difference	95% Confidence Interval	P	Mean Difference	95% Confidence Interval	P
Spoken language
Early elementary	85.6	−8.15	−18.65 to 2.35	.13	−12.63	−22.25 to −3.00	.01
Late elementary	96.2	−12.33	−24.20 to −0.45	.04	−19.81	−30.70 to −8.92	<.001
Reading comprehension
Early elementary	101.1	0.11	−9.11 to 9.33	.98	−3.20	−11.65 to 5.26	.46
Late elementary	94.9	−6.51	−14.18 to 1.16	.10	−8.83	−15.86 to −1.80	.01

Delayed (SS <85)		OR	95% Confidence Interval	P	OR	95% Confidence Interval	P
Spoken language
Early elementary		1.44	0.52 to 4.01	.48	3.18	1.16 to 8.67	.02
Late elementary		3.41	1.17 to 9.93	.03	3.93	1.45 to 10.61	.007
Reading comprehension
Early elementary		1.85	0.44 to 7.69	.40	1.55	0.40 to 6.05	.53
Late elementary		3.94	1.31 to 11.87	.02	3.77	1.35 to 10.51	.01