About Face: Evaluating and Managing Tactile Impairment at the Time of Autism Diagnosis

Table 6

Post hoc levels of autism comparisons.

	Severe autism	Mild autism	(d.f.)	value
Oral-tactile
M	32.49	24.02	42.72	<.000
SD	5.19	6.97	()
Face-mouth
M	11.70	9.47	11.26	.001
SD	2.51	3.63	()
Hands-feet-head-skin-diaper
M	20.79	14.55	39.05	<.000
SD	4.03	5.35	()
Orientation and attention
M	15.47	9.94	55.24	<.000
SD	2.92	4.03	()
Self-regulation total
M	41.84	29.24	52.05	<.000
SD	7.14	9.29	()
Oral-tactile, orientation-attention, and self-regulation
M	89.87	63.20	91.58	<.000
SD	10.49	15.34	()
Other sensory domains
M	11.63	9.20	7.66	.007
SD	4.59	3.81	()
Constipation
M	2.84	2.57	0.25	.662
SD	2.62	2.53	()
Total scale
M	104.26	74.98	79.05	<.000
SD	13.55	17.46	()
Face-mouth + orientation-attention
M	27.16	19.41	58.86	<.000
SD	4.03	5.45	()

Note: M = mean; SD = standard deviation; d.f. = degrees of freedom.