Sensory Response Patterns in Nonverbal Children with ASD
Table 1
Demographic information for cross-sectional dataset.
Nonverbal ()
Verbal ()
Total ()
Male
24 (30%)
43 (54%)
67 (85%)
Hispanic
1 (1%)
3 (4%)
4 (5%)
race*,+
Asian
1 (3%)
0 (0%)
1 (1%)
Black
7 (24%)
2 (4%)
9 (11%)
White
16 (55%)
46 (92%)
62 (79%)
Multiple races
5 (17%)
2 (4%)
7 (9%)
Chronological age**,+
43.5 (12.74) mos
57.9 (16.35) mos
IQ (proxy)***,+
33.8 (12.38)
73.5 (25.28)
Maternal education****,++
Partial high school
0 (0%)
1 (2%)
1 (1%)
High school/GED
8 (28%)
7 (14%)
15 (19%)
Associate/partial college
11 (38%)
8 (16%)
19 (24%)
Bachelor
8 (28%)
22 (44%)
30 (38%)
Masters/doctorate
2 (7%)
12 (24%)
14 (18%)
Household income*****,+
<$20000
0 (0%)
1 (2%)
1 (1%)
$20000–59999
19 (66%)
15 (30%)
34 (43%)
$60000–99999
9 (31%)
20 (40%)
29 (37%)
>$100000
1 (3%)
14 (28%)
15 (19%)
+Significant differences based on verbal/nonverbal status at .
++Significant differences based on verbal/nonverbal status at .
*Verbal children were more likely to be white (3, = 79) = 15.06, = .002.
**Verbal children were older (77) = −4.56, < .001.
***Verbal children had higher IQs (77) = −7.90, < .001.
****Mothers of verbal children tended to have more education (4, = 79) = 10.37, = .04.
*****Verbal children tended to come from households with higher income (3, = 79) = 12.19, = .007.
