Table 2.

Group Communicative Outcomes and Social Drivers of Health (N = 73)

Variable	ASD		ASD+LI		Wald χ2	df	p
	EMM	95% CI	EMM	95% CI
Unmet service needs	3.31	[2.28, 4.82]	3.64	[2.72, 4.87]	0.16	1	.693
Barriers to services	5.13	[3.90, 6.74]	6.01	[5.01, 7.21]	1.14	1	.285
Sense of community	2.9	[2.54, 3.26]	3.04	[2.72, 3.37]	0.51	1	.473
SRS-2 SCI t-score	74.1	[69.34, 79.18]	71.1	[67.62, 74.63]	1.26	1	.261
VABS-3 communication	88.02	[79.15, 97.89]	76.3	[71, 81.95]	6.10	1	.014

Note. LI = language impairment. EMM = estimated marginal means. Models fit with maximum likelihood estimation and robust covariance. Unmet service needs fit with negative binomial distribution and log link. Barriers to services fit with a Poisson distribution and log link. Sense of community and VABS-3 communication scores fit with Gaussian distribution and identity link. SRS-2 SCI t-scores fit with Tweedie distribution and identity link. Wald χ² statistics and EMM control for NVIQ of < 75, 75 to 84, and ≥ 85. Data corrected for multiple comparisons using Holm-Bonferroni method (Holm, 1979). Sense of community = Brief Sense of Community Scale overall score (Peterson et al., 2008). Unmet service needs and barriers to services = National Longitudinal Transition Survey-2 items (Newman et al., 2011), per Taylor & Henninger (2015). SRS-2 SCI = Social Responsiveness Scale-2nd Ed. social communication & interaction (Constantino, 2012).