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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism Res. 2023 Jan 3;16(3):653–666. doi: 10.1002/aur.2885

Table 4.

Autism symptom scores for EP and term born females with ASD

EP Term t p d
n Mean SD n Mean SD
Age 20 10.0 0.9 20 10.1 0.6 0.4 .70 0.1
Nonverbal IQ 20 72.1 24.7 20 74.1 21.5 0.3 .79 0.09
Verbal IQ1 19 65.7 31.2 19 72.2 26.2 07 .49 0.3
Social Communication
ADI-R reciprocal social interaction 19 18.5 8.0 20 20.6 5.6 1.0 .34 0.3
ADI-R nonverbal communication 19 7.7 4.4 20 9.7 3.1 1.6 .12 0.5
ADI-R verbal communication 15 5.3 2.6 19 8.7 2.1 4.2 <.001 1.5
  ADI-R B2 social initiation 15 3.2 1.3 19 3.8 0.4 1.7 .12 0.6
  ADI-R B3 stereotyped speech 15 2.1 1.8 19 4.9 1.9 4.3 <.001 1.5
ADOS-2 module 1/2 social affect 4 11.5 5.5 4 11.0 4.8 0.1 .90 0.1
ADOS-2 module 3 social affect 16 10.4 4.5 16 10.6 3.6 0.2 .86 0.06
ADOS-2 social affect calibrated severity 20 7.1 2.4 20 7.4 1.8 0.5 .61 0.2
Restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRB)
ADI-R RRB total 19 3.5 2.5 20 6.5 2.2 3.9 <.001 1.3
ADOS-2 module 1/2 RRB total 4 6.5 1.0 4 4.0 2.0 2.2 .067 1.6
ADOS-2 module 3 RRB total 16 3.1 2.1 16 3.3 1.8 0.4 .72 0.1
ADOS-2 RRB calibrated severity 20 7.5 2.7 20 7.7 1.6 0.4 .73 0.1
1

One EP participant was missing verbal IQ score

2

One EP participant was missing ADI-R scores