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Table 9 The correlation between the scoring in expressive language scale and expressive language scale in one hand and scoring in each of the seven scales

From: The early communicative skills among a sample of Egyptian infants and toddlers

Comm. domain

Expressive

Receptive

Pearson correlation

r

p value

r

p value

Passive joint attention

0.533

0.000

0.5

0.000

Active joint attention

0.624

0.000

0.679

0.000

Gesture use

0.642

0.000

0608

0.000

Object use

0.612

0.000

0.607

0.000

Social interaction

0.577

0.000

0.559

0.000

  1. The table shows that there is a moderate correlation between language scales (receptive and expressive scales) and the remaining scales
  2. r is the Pearson correlation; < 0.5 weak correlation; between 0.5 and 0.7 moderate correlation; > 0.7 strong correlation