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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Except Child. 2017 Jul 3;84(1):55–75. doi: 10.1177/0014402917705855

Table 2.

Sample Descriptive Statistics

Measure IBR (n = 47) PA (n = 42) BAU (n = 44)



Pretest Posttest Gain Pretest Posttest Gain Pretest Posttest Gain






M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD)
Age (Months) 55.89 (3.73) -- 55.10 (4.80) -- 56.30 (3.99) --
Autism Index 83.89 (19.16) -- 80.84 (16.07) -- 83.10 (18.93) --
Vocabulary
Recept Voc 78.62 (16.93) 87.77 (18.88) 9.15 81.50 (18.83) 86.45 (19.23) 4.95 83.05 (18.67) 86.93 (17.01) 3.89
Express Voc 86.87 (17.34) 94.54 (20.31) 7.67 88.26 (16.98) 90.60 (19.78) 2.34 86.73 (18.07) 89.14 (18.22) 2.41
Listen Comp 78.15 (16.69) 83.78 (18.42) 5.63 82.21 (13.86) 82.29 (17.03) 0.08 80.93 (17.68) 80.48 (18.68) −0.45
Emerg Literacy
Phono Aware 75.21 (15.33) 83.23 (15.83) 8.02 79.21 (15.22) 91.74 (22.65) 12.53 77.88 (18.94) 82.11 (17.96) 4.23
Print Know 103.09 (14.74) 105.17 (11.88) 2.08 102.73 (15.57) 103.64 (15.30) 0.91 106.14 (13.92) 105.36 (10.15) −0.77
Word Read 109.31 (17.97) 109.08 (12.26) −0.23 110.55 (16.82) 112.64 (20.10) 2.09 112.30 (17.52) 114.16 (20.85) 1.85

Note. IBR = Interactive Book Reading condition, PA = Phonological Awareness condition, BAU = Business-as-Usual condition. For Word Reading, ns = 26, 42, and 23, for IBR, PA, and BAU, respectively. Age = months old at pretest; Autism Index = Gilliam Autism Rating Scale-2 total index percentile; Recept Voc = receptive vocabulary as measured by the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test IV; Express Voc= expressive vocabulary as measured by the Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test IV; Listen Comp = listening comprehension as measured by the Woodcock Johnson III Listening Comprehension cluster; Phono Aware = phonological awareness as measured by the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing Phonological Awareness subtest; Print Know = print knowledge as measured by the Test of Preschool Early Literacy Print Knowledge subtest; Word Read = word reading as measured by the Woodcock Johnson III Letter-Word Identification subtest. All tests in standard scores.