Table 4.

Descriptive statistics on higher level structural language tasks for HFASD and TD groups by gender

	HFASD (n = 26) Mean (SD)	TD (n = 25) Mean (SD)	Gender overall Mean (SD)	Significance on measure
	Raw score	Raw score		Group	Gender	Interaction
CELF-4 Understanding spoken paragraphs subtest (max score 15)		(n:26)		p = .303	p = .146	p = .214
Female	12.15 (2.76)	12.00 (2.24)	12.08 (2.47)
Male	10.23 (2.77)	11.85 (2.30)	11.04 (2.63)
Group overall	11.19 (2.89)	11.92 (2.23)	11.56 (2.58)
Expressive narrative—story length (max score 527)				p = .081	p = .140	p = .569
Female	253.23 (101.03)	323.83 (93.12)	287.12 (101.85)
Male	225.46 (134.31)	261.75 (84.81)	242.88 (112.51)
Group overall	239.35 (117.29)	292.79 (92.70)	265.00 (108.537)
Expressive narrative—language complexity (max score 35)				p = .003	p = .268	p = .796
Female	10.23 (7.38)	16.58 (8.36)	13.28 (8.35)
Male	7.15 (6.68)	14.67 (8.97)	10.76 (8.60)
Group overall	8.69 (7.08)	15.63 (8.54)	12.02 (8.49)
Expressive narrative—temporal markers number (max score 26)				p = .059	p = .525	p = .897
Female	8.92 (5.94)	12.17 (6.52)	10.48 (6.33)
Male	7.54 (6.50)	11.25 (6.40)	9.32 (6.59)
Group overall	8.23 (6.14)	11.71 (6.36)	9.90 (6.42)
Expressive narrative—temporal markers range (max score 6)				p = .026	p = .470	p = .187
Female	2.69 (1.49)	3.08 (1.31)	2.88 (1.39)
Male	1.85 (1.86)	3.33 (0.88)	2.56 (1.63)
Group overall	2.27 (1.71)	3.21 (1.10)	2.72 (1.51)
Expressive narrative—causal markers number (max score 22)				p = .014	p = .036	p = .942
Female	1.77 (1.69)	4.42 (3.58)	3.04 (3.02)
Male	1.00 (1.00)	3.50 (6.02)	2.20 (4.33)
Group overall	1.38 (1.42)	3.96 (4.87)	2.62 (3.72)
Expressive narrative—causal markers range (max score 6)				p = .003	p = .006	p = .089
Female	0.92 (0.49)	1.83 (0.94)	1.36 (0.86)
Male	0.69 (0.63)	1.25 (1.14)	0.96 (0.94)
Group overall	0.81 (0.57)	1.54 (1.06)	1.16 (0.91)