Demographic, developmental, and performance characteristics of the low functioning group
| Identity number used in the study | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 034 | 184 | 285 | 415 | 451 | 471 | 253 | 428 | ||
| *Problems breathing after birth; admitted to hospital for one week. Mother reported speech was delayed at the time of hospital admission. †Patients with active epilepsy. ‡The number in brackets indicates the number of speech and language assessments in which an impairment was detected | |||||||||
| B, behaviour; CM, cerebral malaria; M, memory; M/S, malaria and complicated seizures; N, neurological; S/L speech/language. | |||||||||
| Diagnosis | CM | CM | CM | CM | CM | CM | M/S | M/S | |
| Age (years) | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | |
| Age of insult (years, months) | 2, 10 | 2, 2 | 2, 7 | 2, 3 | 3, 1 | 3, 3 | 3, 0 | 2, 1 | |
| Prenatal or perinatal problems | No | No | No | No | Yes* | No | No | No | |
| Developmental problems premalaria | No | No | No | No | Yes* | No | No record | No record | |
| Epilepsy | Yes† | No | No | No | No | No | Yes† | Yes† | |
| Impairments on study assessments | S/L (5)‡, M, N | S/L (4), M, B, N | S/L (5), M, B | S/L (4), N | S/L (4), M, N | S/L (7), M, N | S/L (4), M, N | S/L (5) M, N | |