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Table 8 Discriminant validity: correlations between ELS-variables and measures of challenging behaviors

From: Spoken language outcome measures for treatment studies in Down syndrome: feasibility, practice effects, test-retest reliability, and construct validity of variables generated from expressive language sampling

Measures

Lexical diversity

Syntax

Talkativeness

Unintelligibility

Dysfluency

 

Conversation

ABC total raw score

− .14

− .13

− .02

.21

− .26*a

Vineland MBI total raw score

− .19

− .18

− .17

.20

− .05

 

Narration

ABC total raw score

− .03

− .06

.10

.10

− .13

Vineland MBI total raw score

− .08

− .02

− .05

− .08

.22

  1. *p < .05
  2. aAssociation does not remain significant after FDR correction