Table 3.
Descriptive statistics on basic structural language assessments for HFASD and TD groups by gender
| HFASD (n = 26) Mean (SD) |
TD (n = 26) Mean (SD) |
Gender overall Mean (SD) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw score | Standard score | Raw score | Standard score | ||
| BPVS-3: Receptive vocabulary (max. score 132) | |||||
| Female | 106.69 (16.34) | 104.38 (16.95) | 111.31 (5.63) | 111.00 (6.53) | 109.00 (12.20) |
| Male | 104.69 (16.65) | 107.15 (14.63) | 116.08 (7.70) | 115.46 (5.94) | 110.38 (13.97) |
| Group overall | 105.69 (16.19) | 113.69 (7.04) | 109.69 (13.01) | ||
| TOWK: Expressive vocabulary (max. score 29) | (n:25) | ||||
| Female | 22.54 (3.46) | 13.00 (3.42) | 23.08 (2.84) | 13.25 (2.53) | 22.80 (3.12) |
| Male | 20.92 (4.65) | 12.69 (3.95) | 23.69 (3.33) | 13.92 (2.78) | 22.31 (4.20) |
| Group overall | 21.73 (4.09) | 23.40 (3.06) | 22.55 (3.68) | ||
| TROG-2: Receptive grammar (max. score 80) | |||||
| Female | 75.46 (5.47) | 112.69 (6.65) | 76.31 (2.59) | 112.92 (6.40) | 75.88 (4.22) |
| Male | 72.85 (7.18) | 111.92 (12.83) | 77.00 (3.67) | 115.00 (4.87) | 74.92 (5.97) |
| Group overall | 74.15 (6.39) | 76.65 (3.14) | 75.40 (5.14) | ||
| Sensitivity to grammatical errors task (max score 38) | (n:25) | ||||
| Female | 35.69 (2.25) | 34.00 (3.33) | 34.88 (2.89) | ||
| Male | 35.85 (1.35) | 35.92 (1.26) | 35.88 (1.28) | ||
| Group overall | 35.77 (1.82) | 35.00 (2.61) | 35.39 (2.26) | ||
| CELF-4 Recalling Sentences subtest (max score 95) | |||||
| Female | 68.85 (10.13) | 10.69 (2.81) | 72.23 (12.71) | 11.46 (3.20) | 70.54 (11.39) |
| Male | 60.69 (13.76) | 9.08 (3.01) | 74.23 (10.83) | 11.77 (2.35) | 67.46 (13.96) |
| Group overall | 64.77 (12.55) | 73.23 (11.61) | 69.00 (12.71) | ||