Table 1.

Participant demographics and descriptive statistics for the variables of interest

	Overall Sample			Females			Males
	N	Frequency	%	N	Frequency	%	N	Frequency	%
Race	69			34			35
African American/Black		2	2.6		1	2.6		1	2.5
Asian/Pacific Islander		2	2.6		1	2.6		1	2.5
White		51	65.4		25	65.8		26	65.0
Other		1	1.3		1	2.6		0	0.0
Ethnicity
Hispanic/Latino		13	16.7		6	15.8		7	17.5
Yearly Income	75	6	7.7	37	4	10.5	38	2	5.0
Less than 25,000		16	20.5		5	13.2		11	27.5
25,000–50,000		14	17.9		8	21.1		6	15.0
50,000–75,000		9	11.5		6	15.8		3	7.5
75,000–100,000		14	17.9		7	18.4		7	17.5
100,000–150,000		12	15.4		5	13.2		7	17.5
150,000–250,000		4	5.1		2	5.3		2	5.0
Over 250,000
	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD
Age (years)	78	15.84	5.21	38	16.70	4.91	40	15.02	5.41
Cognitive ability	78			38			40
Nonverbal VIQ		49.81	12.15		51.39	10.98		48.40	13.13
Verbal IQ		40.68	13.10		41.44	13.63		39.96	12.72
ADOS-2 1	78			38			40
Overall- CSS2		3.40	2.13		3.24	2.09		3.55	2.18
SA- CSS3		3.92	2.12		3.68	1.95		4.15	2.27
RRB- CSS4		4.37	2.47		4.37	2.36		4.38	2.60
Meet autism criteria		Frequency	%		Frequency	%		Frequency	%
		31	39.74%		14	36.84%		17	42.5%

¹Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition,

²Overall-Calibrated Severity Score,

³Social Affective-Calibrated Severity Score,

⁴Restricted and Repetitive Behavior-Calibrated Severity Score. Non-significant differences were found between males and female in terms of age, cognitive ability, or ADOS-2 scores