Table 7.

Results (means and SDs) of the assessment of narrative skills in the two groups of participants. For children with DLDs, both raw scores and z-scores with respect to normative data are reported in separate columns. For z-scores also ranges are reported. The asterisk (*) shows when the group-related difference in raw scores is significant.

Assessment of Narrative Skills	TD	DLD	DLD
	(Raw Score)	(Raw Score)	(z-score)
% Errors of Global Coherence	4.89 (6.07)	9.42 (13.14)	0.22 (.60) – Range: 0 / 2
% Lexical Informativeness *	86.19 (7.07)	76.77 (13.46)	−0.13 (.70) – Range: -1.5/1

Note: DLD = children with developmental language disorders; TD = children with typical language development. *: The asterisk signals when a group-related difference is significant.