Table 1.

Descriptive information and performance on standardized assessments

	Trevor	Edward	Neil
Descriptive information
Age in months	50	44	46
Early intervention received before study in months	2	24	34
Early intervention services hr/week	10–20	14	4
Speech and language therapy hr/week	6	No response	No response
School-based interventions hr/week	More than 10	More than 10	4–6
Occupational therapy hr/week	None	No response	None
Mullen (descriptive category)
Visual reception	Very low (1st percentile)	Very low (1st percentile)	Very low (1st percentile)
Fine motor	Very low (1st percentile)	Very low (1st percentile)	Very low (1st percentile)
Receptive language	Very low (1st percentile)	Very low (1st percentile)	Very low (1st percentile)
Expressive language	Very low (1st percentile)	Very low (1st percentile)	Very low (1st percentile)
PLS™-5 (age equivalent)
Auditory comprehension	1 year 1 month (1st percentile)	2 years (1st percentile)	9 months (1st percentile)
Expressive communication	11 months (1st percentile)	1 year 5 months (1st percentile)	5 months (1st percentile)
Total language score	11 months (1st percentile)	1 year 8 months (1st percentile)	7 months (1st percentile)
CARS™-2 (severity group)
	Mild-to-moderate symptoms of ASD (42nd percentile)	Minimal-to-no symptoms of ASD (8th percentile)	Severe symptoms of ASD (50th percentile)
Vineland™-II domains (adaptive level)
Communication	Adequate (50th percentile)	Low (2nd percentile)	Low (<1 percentile)
Daily living skills	Moderately low (10th percentile)	Moderately low (4th percentile)	Low (1st percentile)
Socialization	Adequate (30th percentile)	N/A	Low (<1 percentile)
Motor skills	Adequate (50th percentile)	N/A	Low (<1 percentile)
Diagnosis	ASD	ASD	ASD

N/A indicates that the score could not be reported because too many items were left blank