Evaluation of a manualised speech and language therapy programme for children with social communication disorder: the SCIP feasibility study

Table 1 Child participants: characteristics including language test scores at baseline

Baseline measures	N	Range	Mean	SD
Age (in months) at time 1	20	61–131	102	19.50
RPCM centile	20	7–95	50	32.00
CCC-2 GCC	20	21–54	33.60	9.34
CELF-4^a subtests
Concepts and following directions	20	1–12	6.35	3.17
Formulated sentences	20	1–14	7.00	3.18
Word classes receptive	20	0–11	7.25	2.81
Sentence structure^b	11	3–12	7.18	3.46
Understanding spoken paragraphs	19	2–12	7.32	3.20
ACE^a subtests
Naming	20	3–12	8.10	3.02
Non-literal comprehension	20	3–14	7.05	3.15

RPCM Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices, CCC-2 GCC Children’s Communication Checklist-2 General Communication Composite, CELF-4, Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, ACE Assessment of Language Comprehension and Expression
^aFor the normed, standardised assessments, CELF-4 and ACE, a standard score of 10 represents the 50th centile of the population
^bUnder age 9 years only.

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