TABLE 2:

Means, standard deviations, and ranges of questionnaire and autonomic data by research group

		ASD			TD
	M(SD)		Range	M(SD)		Range
n		26			24
Anxiety (SCARED)
Child Report	22.8 (10.8)		3 – 44	11.04 (6.6)		0 – 23
Parent Report	18.8 (10.4)		3 – 35	4.6 (5.0)		0 – 18
Auditory Hypersensitivity (BBC Sensory Scales)
Child Report	18.7 (5.6)		8 – 35	12.2 (2.6)		7 – 17
Parent Report	16.0 (5.5)		10 – 27	8.7 (2.8)		4 – 14
Heart Rate
Baseline	83.8 (11.0)		64.0 – 106.5	80.1 (10.9)		59.5 – 102.4
Noise Task minus Baseline	5.4 (5.0)		−5.0 – 15.0	3.2 (4.5)		−7.5 – 13.4

Note: SCARED = Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders; BBC= Brain Body Center. Possible SCARED range is 0–82 (clinical cutoff at 25). Possible BBC-Auditory Hypersensitivity range is 0–36. Missing data was as follows: Two SCARED-child reports (1ASD, 1 TD), one SCARED-parent report (ASD), two BBC-child reports (1 ASD, 1 TD), and one BBC-parent report (TD). All participants provided usable heart rate data.