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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2010 Oct;40(10):1259–1273. doi: 10.1007/s10803-010-0983-1

Table 2.

Age equivalent mean and standard deviation (SD) scores on three language measures, broken down by receptive or expressive language scores, for each diagnostic group: autism group, pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) group, and developmental delay (DD) group

Receptive language Expressive language


Autism PDD-NOS DD Autism PDD-NOS DD
Mullen (n) 159 70 65 159 70 65
 Mean (SD) 8.81 (6.84) 16.74 (8.40) 20.52 (8.03) 11.31 (6.48) 16.56 (7.79) 17.66 (9.09)
SICD (n) 120 51 45 119 51 44
 Mean (SD) 7.70 (6.35) 14.82 (7.73) 19.89 (6.97) 9.61 (5.71) 10.7 (6.20) 16.36 (7.52)
Vineland (n) 172 69 60 161 69 58
 Mean (SD) 10.48 (5.77) 16.30 (9.57) 21.27 (10.07) 8.57 (5.60) 13.49 (6.69) 15.66 (6.55)