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Table 5 Individual test scores for children who had specific language impairment at 4 years of age

From: Parental phonological memory contributes to prediction of outcome of late talkers from 20 months to 4 years: a longitudinal study of precursors of specific language impairment

IDa no.

63

158

238

122

143

252

132

355

268

69

195

180

155

323

349

Predicted outcome

SLI

SLI

SLI

SLI

SLI

SLI

SLI

TD

TD

TD

TD

TD

TD

TD

TD

Discriminant score

-2.86

-2.49

-1.99

-1.79

-1.68

-1.64

-1.58

-0.84

-0.73

-0.11

-0.02

0.05

0.20

0.23

0.59

Sex

Boy

Boy

Boy

Boy

Girl

Boy

Boy

Girl

Boy

Boy

Boy

Girl

Girl

Girl

Boy

Positive family history

1

1

1

1

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

1

0

1

0

Parent non-word repetition T1 ss

5

5

10

5

9

12

-

8

12

10

9

10

9

9

13

Block design scaled

9

17

10

10

12

7

12

10

10

12

12

8

15

11

12

Matrices scaled

8

8

8

12

8

10

7

8

10

13

11

8

12

7

7

Language batteryb

               

   BAS comprehension

0.92

-0.81

0.10

0.61

-1.17

-2.05

-0.81

-0.61

0.10

0.10

-1.17

0.10

0.92

0.10

-0.81

   BAS naming

1.41

0.20

-0.41

0.61

-0.41

-0.99

-2.33

0.99

-0.10

1.41

-0.41

0.61

1.41

0.61

1.41

   GAPS sentence repetition

0.88

-0.84

-0.47

0.00

0.00

-1.48

-0.47

-0.36

0.28

-0.36

-1.08

2.00

0.28

-1.08

0.28

   GAPS non-word repetition

0.44

-1.41

-

-0.44

-1.75

-1.75

-0.95

-1.41

2.00

-1.41

-1.75

-0.44

-0.44

-0.95

2.00

   Bus story information

-1.53

-0.67

-1.20

-1.07

-2.20

-1.93

-2.07

-0.07

-2.07

-0.20

-1.33

-1.67

-1.93

-2.20

-2.07

   Bus story sentence length

-1.27

-0.87

-0.40

-0.87

-0.40

-1.27

-1.27

0.60

-0.87

1.00

-0.87

0.60

-1.27

-1.80

-1.27

   CCC-2 GCC

-0.13

-1.04

-0.03

-1.28

-0.58

-1.08

-0.13

-0.95

-1.64

-1.34

-1.64

0.25

-1.04

-

-1.04

   TEGI 3rd singularb

1.00

0.11

0.00

0.43

0.90

0.00

0.63

0.78

1.00

0.50

0.44

0.67

1.00

1.00

0.86

   TEGI past tense

0.67

0.88

0.86

0.94

0.87

0.29

0.72

0.13

0.75

0.89

0.18

0.94

0.88

0.87

1.00

  1. aAbbreviations: BAS, British Ability Scales; CCC-2, Children's Communication Checklist, version 2; GAPS, Grammar and Phonology Screening Test; GCC, general communication composite; ID, identification; SLI, specific language impairment; TD, typical development; TEGI, Test of Early Grammatical Impairment.
  2. bAll data are z-scores, except for TEGI, where scores are proportions.