Table 2.
Recall informativeness and accuracy per question type
| Narrative details and group | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Correct | Incorrect | % Accuracy | ||||||||||
| ASD | TDC | ASD | TDC | ASD | TDC | |||||||
| Prompt type | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD |
| Invitation | 6.45 | 7.93 | 9.62 | 7.28* | 0.78 | 1.80 | 1.62 | 1.65 | 0.88 | 0.11 | 0.87 | 0.11 |
| Cued invitation | 14.08 | 16.87 | 22.21 | 15.49* | 1.94 | 5.48 | 3.84 | 5.04 | 0.88 | 0.17 | 0.86 | 0.15 |
| Directive | 5.14 | 10.07 | 9.61 | 9.25* | 1.36 | 2.00 | 1.45 | 1.83 | 0.84 | 0.19 | 0.84 | 0.18 |
| Option-posing | 2.27 | 2.93 | 1.98 | 2.69 | 0.30 | 0.64 | 0.52 | 0.59 | 0.74 | 0.26 | 0.74 | 0.24 |
| Focused/contaminating | 5.34 | 3.36 | 4.60 | 3.08 | 1.30 | 1.21 | 1.02 | 1.11 | 0.83 | 0.19 | 0.84 | 0.18 |
Means and standard deviations for the average number of narrative details reported per question asked and percentage accuracy of children’s recall in response to each type of prompt by group and information type
ASD autism spectrum disorder, TDC typically developing children
*Significant group difference p < .05