Research Article

Normal Gaze Cueing in Children with Autism Is Disrupted by Simultaneous Speech Utterances in “Live” Face-to-Face Interactions

Table 1

Matching data for the autism and control groups. Values are mean values ± SD.

Age (years)Vocabulary scaled scorePicture completion scaled scoreProrated IQ

Autism group ( 𝑛 = 8 ) 1 4 . 3 ± 1 . 1 1 1 . 8 ± 3 . 5 1 0 . 9 ± 3 . 1 1 0 7 . 6 ± 1 7 . 1
Control group ( 𝑛 = 9 ) 1 3 . 9 ± 1 . 2 1 1 . 0 ± 3 . 5 1 1 . 0 ± 3 . 1 1 0 5 . 9 ± 1 6 . 8
Group matching ( 𝑡 ( 1 5 ) = . 7 0 3 , 𝑃 = . 4 9 ) ( 𝑡 ( 1 5 ) = . 4 3 9 , 𝑃 = . 6 7 ) ( 𝑡 ( 1 5 ) = . 0 8 2 , 𝑃 = . 9 4 ) ( 𝑡 ( 1 5 ) = . 2 1 1 , 𝑃 = . 8 4 )