Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics of Child Pointing Gesture and Object Manipulation Counts by Group

	ASD (n = 16; F = 2)			HR (n = 13; F = 7)			TD (n = 18; F = 7)
	M (SD)	Min	Max	M (SD)	Min	Max	M (SD)	Min	Max
Total pointing	8.75 (7.27)	0	29	12.8 (9.56)	0	28	20.0 (13.5)	3	49
Index pointing	6.75 (5.56)	0	20	10.8 (8.87)	0	27	18.1 (13.4)	13.4	47
Open palm pointing	2.00 (2.73)	0	9	1.92 (3.17)	0	12	1.94 (2.04)	0	6
No contact pointing	5.19 (4.69)	0	17	6.15 (3.74)	0	12	12.1 (10.1)	2	41
Contact pointing	3.56 (3.48)	0	12	6.62 (8.12)	0	23	7.89 (8.63)	0	36
Object manipulation	7.31 (6.69)	0	19	8.46 (7.13)	0	21	5.56 (3.03)	0	10

M: mean; SD: standard deviation.