Table 4.
Means and standard deviations for the outcome measures of the MAP (n = 11) and SCIP-I (n = 8) groups.
| Measure | Pre-intervention | Mid-intervention | Post-intervention | 3-month follow-up | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAP | SCIP-I | MAP | SCIP-I | MAP | SCIP-I | MAP | SCIP-I | |
| Adaptive functioning (VABS-3) | 56.18 (5.56) | 55.88 (4.19) | NA | NA | 58.45 (5.47) | 57.00 (4.96) | 58.55 (6.35) | 56.71 (6.55) |
| Autism severity (SRS-2) | 79.00 (9.06) | 79.13 (8.20) | NA | NA | 74.91 (7.98) | 81.25 (8.33) | 74.82 (9.45) | 78.86 (9.41) |
| Phrases understood (CDI) | 10.27 (5.71) | 7.88 (5.89) | 11.36 (3.11) | 9.38 (6.61) | 15.55 (3.98) | 12.00 (6.39) | 14.91 (6.06) | 13.86 (8.71) |
| Words produced (CDI) | 1.45 (2.25) | 1.63 (4.21) | 9.18 (10.42) | 7.63 (18.90) | 10.36 (16.49) | 13.25 (35.09) | 27.18 (25.97) | 27.00 (68.81) |
| Words understood (CDI) | 62.00 (27.46) | 66.63 (66.93) | 93.55 (53.32) | 94.13 (107.23) | 106.27 (61.90) | 108.00 (115.10) | 136.82 (73.65) | 128.14 (131.58) |
| Thirty-six target words understood | 0.64 (1.80) | 2.25 (6.36) | 2.55 (6.86) | 3.50 (9.90) | 4.55 (9.73) | 3.63 (10.25) | 4.91 (10.28) | 4.14 (9.32) |
| Thirty-six target words produced | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.64 (2.11) | 3.25 (8.80) | 0.09 (0.30) | 0.50 (1.41) | 2.36 (5.07) | 4.29 (11.34) |
| ROWPVT | 54.36 (0.50) | 56.25 (3.96) | 57.00 (9.95) | 55.63 (3.85) | 57.27 (10.85) | 54.00 (0.00) | 57.36 (6.67) | 56.14 (5.67) |
| EOWPVT | 55.27 (1.49) | 55.63 (2.07) | 54.55 (0.69) | 54.63 (1.06) | 54.36 (0.50) | 54.43 (0.79) | 55.18 (3.92) | 57.86 (10.21) |
| Vocalisations per minute | 3.04 (2.42) | 4.08 (3.93) | 3.05 (1.75) | 7.05 (7.60) | 4.51 (3.80) | 4.92 (5.75) | 4.33 (2.94) | 3.45 (2.75) |
| Words per minute | 0.13 (0.22) | 0.18 (0.36) | 0.27 (0.39) | 1.17 (2.13) | 0.87 (2.09) | 0.55 (1.35) | 1.13 (1.64) | 1.01 (2.08) |
| Phrases per minute | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.62 (2.01) | 0.01 (0.02) | 0.16 (0.38) | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.56 (1.46) | 0.04 (0.12) |
| Social responses per minute | 1.07 (0.62) | 1.18 (1.60) | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1.55 (0.78) | 1.05 (0.56) |
| Social initiations per minute | 0.55 (0.42) | 0.84 (0.52) | NA | NA | NA | NA | 1.13 (0.71) | 0.79 (0.73) |
MAP: music-assisted programmes; SCIP-I: Social Communication Intervention for Pre-schoolers–Intensive; VABS-3: Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales–third edition; NA: not available; SRS-2: Social Responsiveness Scale–2; CDI: MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories; ROWPVT: Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test; EOWPVT: Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test.