Neural patterns elicited by sentence processing uniquely characterize typical development, SLI recovery, and SLI persistence

Table 1 Participant characteristics

	Normal Language n = 18 (10 females)		SLI-Recovered n = 15 (7 females)		SLI-Persistent n = 19 (7 females)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Chronological age	15.82	1.21	15.87	1.21	16.50	1.46
Cognitive standard score^a	103.22	9.81	99.53	6.90	94.79	8.80
8th grade language composite Z-score	0.38	0.72	−0.47	0.38	−1.84	0.43
4th grade language composite Z-score	0.59	0.96	−0.62	0.47	−1.66	0.75
2nd grade language composite Z-score	0.52	0.95	−0.95	0.52	−1.85	0.48
Kindergarten language composite Z-score	0.67	0.98	−1.05	0.44	−1.69	0.46
Race	18 White		14 White 1 Black		16 White 3 Black
Ethnicity	0 Hispanic		0 Hispanic		1 Hispanic

Note. Chronological age at the time the ERP experiment was completed
^aPerformance IQ on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Third Edition during the 8th grade visit. SLI classification for each visit followed the EpiSLI standard [74]

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