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

Table 4.

Partial correlation coefficients (controlling for nonverbal cognition) between receptive language scores and expressive language scores on the Mullen, sequenced inventory of communication development (SICD), and Vineland for the autism group, pervasive developmental disorders-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) group, and developmental delay (DD) group

	Mullen–SICD	SICD–Vineland	Mullen–Vineland
Autism group
Receptive	.826^***	.689^***	.680^***
Expressive	.568^***	.572^***	.600^***
PDD-NOS group
Receptive	.745^***	.522^***	.571^***
Expressive	.453^***	.503^***	.671^***
DD group
Receptive	.836^***	.377^*	.416^**
Expressive	.764^***	.731^***	.805^***

p < .05,

^**

p < .01,

^***

p ≤ .001