TABLE 1.

Demographic information and TOWRE-2 scores for ECI and ONH groups

	ECI Postlingually Deafened Adults		ONH Age-normal Hearing		Effect Size on Group Differences
	M	SD	M	SD	Cohen’s d
Demographic information
Age	66.8	10.2	67.4	6.9	0.07
SES (out of 64)	26.4	14.3	36.3	14.2	0.69
MMSE (raw)	28.7	1.4	29.3	0.9	0.51
Better ear PTA (dB HL)	99.5	18.5	16.2	7.3	5.92
WRAT (raw)	41.9	6.9	45.2	5	0.55
Age at first CI	59.8	12.2
Duration HL to CI (yr)	32.2	18.7
TOWRE-2 reading fluency scores
Sight word efficiency (SWE)	78.2	11.4	83.3	10.2	0.47
Phonological decoding efficiency (PDE)	42.0	11.2	43.7	10.3	0.16
Total	120.2	19.5	127.0	16.6	0.38