Table 1.
Participant sociodemographics.
| Characteristics | Autism without language impairment (n = 16) |
Autism plus language impairment (n = 15) |
Total sample (N = 31) |
Group differences |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | t | df | p | |
| Age in years | 20.23 (5.03), 14.03–30.42 | N/A | 21.41 (3.37), 16.43–29.67 | N/A | 20.80 (4.28), 14.03–30.42 | N/A | −0.76 | 29 | .452 |
| Race | |||||||||
| Asian | 1 | 6.25 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 3.23 | |||
| Black | 3 | 18.75 | 10 | 66.67 | 13 | 41.94 | |||
| Multiracial | 2 | 12.5 | 1 | 6.67 | 3 | 9.68 | |||
| Native American | 2 | 12.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 6.45 | |||
| White | 7 | 43.75 | 2 | 13.33 | 9 | 29.03 | |||
| Don't know | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 13.33 | 2 | 6.45 | |||
| Missing | 1 | 6.25 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 3.23 | |||
| Ethnicity: Hispanic/Latine | |||||||||
| Yes | 2 | 12.5 | 5 | 33.33 | 7 | 22.58 | |||
| No | 14 | 87.5 | 10 | 66.67 | 22 | 70.97 | |||
| Don't know | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 3.23 | |||
| Sex assigned at birth | .172 | ||||||||
| Female | 5 | 31.25 | 1 | 6.67 | 6 | 19.35 | |||
| Male | 11 | 68.75 | 14 | 93.33 | 25 | 80.65 | |||
| Gender | .083 | ||||||||
| Female | 6 | 37.5 | 1 | 6.67 | 7 | 22.58 | |||
| Male | 10 | 62.5 | 14 | 93.33 | 24 | 77.42 | |||
Note. Age presented as M (SD), range. In the autism without language impairment group, “multiracial” indicates Asian and White, White and unknown. In the autism with language impairment group, “multiracial” indicates Black and White, and “don't know” indicates Puerto Rican. Fisher's exact test used for sex assigned at birth and gender due to small sample sizes, so no test statistic is provided. N/A = not applicable.