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indicated that children falling within the older two-month age interval should be identifying
and eliciting a greater mean number of stimuli, descriptive words, descriptive sentences, and
pronouns than their younger counterparts. This proposed trend was not noted for a number
of cultural groups of both sample 1 and sample 2.
Table 29 indicates the responses provided by the three socio-economic groupings of
the Indian pre-schoolers from both samples, to the revised small and large SA and UK
pictures.
Table 29
The responses given to the small and large revised SA and UK pictures for each socio-
economic group for the Indian pre-schoolers of sample 1 and 2
AGE SMALL
PICT-
URES
SES Mean no.
of Stimuli
identified
Mean
no. of
Stimuli
SAMPLE 1 SAMPLE 2
LARGE SA PICTURE
Mean
no. of
Descriptive
words
Mean
no. of
Descriptivesentences
Mean
no. of
Pronouns
SMALL
PICT-
URES
Mean no.
of Stimuli
identified
Mean
no. of
Stimuli
LARGE UK PICTURE
Mean
no. of
Descriptive
words
Mean
no. of
Descriptivesentences
U 18 22 3 1 1 19 22 2 2 0
M 18 20 3 3 1 18 19 2 2 1
L 18 20 4 1 0 17 21 2 1 0
U = upper SES; M = middle SES; L = lower SES
There was no difference amongst the three socio-economic groups of sample 1
regarding the mean number (X=18) of correctly identified small revised pictures. Children
from the upper socio-economic group of sample 2 correctly identified the highest mean
number of stimuli (X=19) from the small revised pictures. Regarding the large revised SA
and UK pictures, a diverse array of the highest mean number of identified stimuli, elicited
descriptive words, descriptive sentences and pronouns, were reported by the Indian pre-
schoolers, from all 3 socio-economic groups of both samples. Bhamjee (1991) found
Mean
no. of
Pronouns
significant SES differences for South African Indian children with respect to the Hearing and
Speech Scale of the Griffiths Scales. In the present study the small number of Indian pre-
schoolers of sample 1 and 2 who belonged to the lower socio-economic group could have
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