Figure 5.

Case summaries of longitudinal severity scores.

Note. Parentheses by individual data points indicate (Module, Raw Score) for each assessment. Caption. The calibrated severity metric allows change across time and module to be evaluated in a standardized fashion in children of varying age and verbal ability. Adam and Daniel follow relatively consistent trajectories despite module changes, while a marked change in severity is apparent in Cara’s scores despite seemingly small increases in raw total within the same module. Bianca’s decreasing raw totals alone indicate a drop in ASD severity, but the clinical import of this is obscured by her module change and increasing chronological age. Severity scores are not necessarily more stable than raw totals, but were created to allow the change or consistency in these cases to be interpreted more readily than perceived patterns in raw total scores.