Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants.

Participation ID	Group	Sex	Age	Height	Weight	BMI	Intellectual Level (CARS)	Communication (FIM)	Social Cognition (FIM)
1	CAT	Male	5	103	20	18.85	4	7	9
2	CAT	Male	4	95	17	18.83	3	8	9
3	CAT	Male	5	108	20	17.14	4	7	11
4	CAT	Female	15	138	29	15.22	2	7	11
5	CAT	Male	12	133	29	16.39	2	7	10
6	CAT	Male	9	148	41	18.71	2	8	10
7	CAT	Male	5	97	26	27.63	4	6	9
8	CAT	Female	9	139	21	10.86	3	10	11
9	CAT	Female	8	130	42	24.85	3	9	11
10	CAT	Male	11	145	35	16.64	5	8	10
Mean		7/3	8.30	123.60	28.00	18.51	3.20	7.70	10.10
SD			3.62	20.60	8.93	4.75	1.03	1.16	0.88
11	IAT	Female	5	103	17	16.02	3	7	10
12	IAT	Male	7	125	22	14.08	3	6	8
13	IAT	Male	6	110	19	15.70	3	8	10
14	IAT	Male	5	100	15	15.00	4	7	10
15	IAT	Female	5	106	17	15.12	4	7	10
16	IAT	Female	14	135	37	20.30	2	8	11
17	IAT	Male	15	152	45	19.47	2	10	12
18	IAT	Male	14	138	34	17.85	3	7	10
19	IAT	Male	7	120	20	13.89	5	6	9
20	IAT	Male	7	120	35	24.30	3	7	9
21	IAT	Male	10	140	41	20.92	2	8	10
22	IAT	Male	8	130	23	13.61	2	8	10
23	IAT	Male	9	140	43	21.94	2	10	11
24	IAT	Male	4	112	24	19.13	2	9	10
Mean		11/3	8.29	123.64	28.00	17.67	2.86	7.71	10.00
SD			3.67	16.08	10.68	3.39	0.95	1.27	0.96
p-value		0.14	0.54	0.25	0.09	0.06	0.20	0.87	0.93

Abbreviations: CAT, Conventional autism therapy; IAT, Integrative autism therapy; BMI, Body mass index; Childhood autism rating scale; FIM, Functional independence measure; SD, Standard deviation.