Table 1.
Participant demographics and descriptive statistics for the variables of interest
| Overall Sample | Females | Males | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Frequency | % | N | Frequency | % | N | Frequency | % | |
| Race | 69 | 34 | 35 | ||||||
| African American/Black | 2 | 2.6 | 1 | 2.6 | 1 | 2.5 | |||
|
Asian/Pacific Islander |
2 | 2.6 | 1 | 2.6 | 1 | 2.5 | |||
| White | 51 | 65.4 | 25 | 65.8 | 26 | 65.0 | |||
| Other | 1 | 1.3 | 1 | 2.6 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Ethnicity | |||||||||
| Hispanic/Latino | 13 | 16.7 | 6 | 15.8 | 7 | 17.5 | |||
|
Yearly Income Less than 25,000 25,000–50,000 50,000–75,000 75,000–100,000 100,000–150,000 150,000–250,000 Over 250,000 |
75 |
6 16 14 9 14 12 4 |
7.7 20.5 17.9 11.5 17.9 15.4 5.1 |
37 |
4 5 8 6 7 5 2 |
10.5 13.2 21.1 15.8 18.4 13.2 5.3 |
38 |
2 11 6 3 7 7 2 |
5.0 27.5 15.0 7.5 17.5 17.5 5.0 |
| N | Mean | SD | N | Mean | SD | N | Mean | SD | |
| Age (years) | 78 | 15.84 | 5.21 | 38 | 16.70 | 4.91 | 40 | 15.02 | 5.41 |
| Cognitive ability | 78 | 38 | 40 | ||||||
| Nonverbal VIQ | 49.81 | 12.15 | 51.39 | 10.98 | 48.40 | 13.13 | |||
| Verbal IQ | 40.68 | 13.10 | 41.44 | 13.63 | 39.96 | 12.72 | |||
| ADOS-2 1 | 78 | 38 | 40 | ||||||
| Overall- CSS2 | 3.40 | 2.13 | 3.24 | 2.09 | 3.55 | 2.18 | |||
| SA- CSS3 | 3.92 | 2.12 | 3.68 | 1.95 | 4.15 | 2.27 | |||
| RRB- CSS4 | 4.37 | 2.47 | 4.37 | 2.36 | 4.38 | 2.60 | |||
| Meet autism criteria |
Frequency 31 |
% 39.74% |
Frequency 14 |
% 36.84% |
Frequency 17 |
% 42.5% |
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Footnotes: 1Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition, 2 Overall-Calibrated Severity Score, 3 Social Affective-Calibrated Severity Score, 4 Restricted and Repetitive Behavior-Calibrated Severity Score. Non-significant differences were found between males and female in terms of age, cognitive ability, or ADOS-2 scores