From: Construction of a tool for assessment of joint attention in Egyptian Cairene children
Group I (TD children) | Group II (Autistic children) | t* | P value | |
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Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | |||
Age (months) | 37.17 ± 10.63 | 45.10 ± 9.37 | 3.64 | < 0.001 |
IQ test | 92.34 ± 2.34 | 62.23 ± 10.01 | 16.33 | < 0.001 |
Language age | 35.51 ± 10.64 | 16.33 ± 6.19 | 12.05 | < 0.001 |
Eye gaze | 37.41 ± 5.39 | 12.97 ± 7.93 | 15.71 | < 0.001 |
Responding to joint attention | 31.22 ± 3.53 | 8.70 ± 6.15 | 19.03 | < 0.001 |
Initiating joint attention | 30.10 ± 5.17 | 6.00 ± 6.77 | 20.39 | < 0.001 |
Coordinated joint attention | 20.26 ± 3.32 | 7.73 ± 4.22 | 16.67 | < 0.001 |
Facial expression | 29.67 ± 2.43 | 12.30 ± 8.88 | 10.58 | < 0.001 |
Total score | 148.66 ± 16.05 | 47.70 ± 29.27 | 18.01 | < 0.001 |