Language and cognitive outcome for high-risk neonates at the age of 2-3 years - experience from an Arab Country

Table 4 Correlation between gestational age and birth weight of high risk children vs different language parameters and cognitive abilities

		Gestational age	Birth weight
Receptive language score	R	0.054	0.112
	P	0.591	0.26
Receptive language age (mo)	R	0.189	0.241
	P	0.055	0.014a
Expressive language score	R	0.231	0.309
	P	0.019a	0.001a
Expressive language age (mo)	R	0.168	0.289
	P	0.09	0.003a
Total language score	R	0.192	0.239
	P	0.051	0.015a
Total language age (mo)	R	0.197	0.286
	P	0.046a	0.003a
IQ score	R	0.125	0.178
	P	0.208	0.072
Social age (mo)	R	0.214	0.322
	P	0.030a	0.001a

^aP < 0.05. R: Spearman’s rho correlation coefficient.