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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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).