TABLE 3.
Assessment of grammatical skills | ASD | TLD |
Sentence completion* | 7.38 (3.92) | 11.86 (1.92) |
Syntactic comprehension* | 30.96 (7.06) | 36.18 (2.17) |
% Paragrammatic errors* | 3.11 (4.04) | 0.42 (0.78) |
% Omissions of function words* | 14.59 (24.58) | 0.83 (2.67) |
% Complete sentences* | 44.34 (29.92) | 64.68 (16.70) |
Asterisks show when the group-related difference was significant after Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons (p < 0.010). ASD, children with Autism Spectrum Disorder; TLD, children with Typical Language Development.