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. 2021 Jul 19;12:646849. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.646849

Table 2.

Means, standard deviations (SD) of reading and writing skills, and statistically significant differences between ASD and TD adolescents.

ASD (n = 30) TD (n = 26) F (1, 51) p ηp2
M SD M SD
Reading skills
P. Reading accuracy 38.07 2.13 39.19 1.87 3.82 0.056 0.07
P. Reading speed 42.60 18.3 33.50 12.3 4.18 0.046 0.07
P. Comprehension 12.80 4.33 14.31 3.95 0.87 0.354 0.01
P. Comprehension L 6.50 2.16 7.54 2.10 2.26 0.139 0.04
P. Comprehension I. 5.90 2.51 6.85 2.05 1.59 0.212 0.03
RC. Flexibility 7.97 2.14 9.73 1.18 14.62 0.000* 0.22
Writing skills
Productivity 63.1 44.3 94.2 31.8 7.78 0.007* 0.13
Syntactic C 2.13 1.04 3.07 0.74 13.40 0.001* 0.21
Coherence S 1.03 0.96 1.15 0.78 0.04 0.826 0.00
Coherence Ch 1.63 0.61 1.96 0.19 4.72 0.034 0.08
Coherence C 1.26 0.94 1.84 0.46 6.51 0.014 0.11
Coherence R 0.90 0.66 1.50 0.76 7.63 0.007* 0.13

P. (PROLEC), P. comprehension (PROLEC reading comprehension), P. Comprehension L. (PROLEC literal comprehension), P. Comprehension I (PROLEC inferential comprehension), RC. Flexibility (Reading Comprehension Mental flexibility), Syntactic C (Syntactic complexity), Coherence S (Setting), Coherence Ch (Character), Coherence C (Conflict), and Coherence R (Resolution).

*

p < 0.008 (Bonferroni correction).