. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 14.

Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2019 Apr;49(4):1717–1726. doi: 10.1007/s10803-018-3853-x

Table 5.

Top Five Child Behavior Checklist Challenging Behaviors across Neurogenetic Syndromes

	AS		PWS		WS		LRC
Item	Rank	% Concern	Rank	% Concern	Rank	% Concern	% Concern

Acts too young for age	1	96.6^a	4	72.7^b	2	82.4^ab	11.6^c
Speech problem	2	93.3^a	1	90.9^a	1	91.2^a	11.6^b
Chews on things that aren’t edible	2	93.3^a	5	59.1^bc	2	82.4^ab	39.5^c
Can’t concentrate, can’t pay attention for long	4	86.7^a		45.5^b		79.4^a	27.9^b
Gets into everything	5	83.3^a	2	77.3^a	2	82.4^a	62.8^a
Poorly coordinated or clumsy		66.7^a	2	77.3^a		70.6^a	14.0^b
Can’t stand waiting; wants everything now		69.0^a	5	59.1^a	2	82.4^a	69.8^a
Quickly shifts from one activity to another		76.7^a	5	59.1^ab		79.4^a	44.2^b

Note. AS = Angelman syndrome; PWS = Prader-Willi syndrome; WS = Williams syndrome; LRC = Low-risk controls; % Concern = Percentage of participants who indicated that the item was very true or often true or somewhat or sometimes true of their child.

^a-c

Values in a row with no common superscripts are significantly different from one another (p < .05), based on Fisher’s exact tests.