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Table 4 Comparison between typically developing children and autistic children as regards means and standard deviations of the subtests of the EJAQ Questionnaire

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

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

  1. Data expressed as mean ± SD. Test used: Student t test
  2. SD, standard deviation; P, probability
  3. *significance < 0.05