Visual Scanning in Very Young Children with Autism and Their Unaffected Parents
Table 3
Percentage of absolute and relative time watched at regions of interest (ROIs) in children with ASD and control children and their fathers and mothers.
Absolute time in %
Relative time in %
Autism
Controls
Autism
Controls
Orientation to ROIs
Range
M
SD
M
SD
P
d
Range
M
SD
M
SD
P
d
Children
Movie Puzzle Rabbit
0–61
22.4
17.8
26.8
15.3
ns
0.3
0–66
26.2
18.4
31.1
15.6
ns
0.3
Movie Trumpet
0–70
32.5
22.8
24.5
22.1
ns
0.3
0–100
39.0
28.4
31.0
27.9
ns
0.3
Movie Teletubbies
0–47
18.3
8.4
21.2
12.6
ns
0.2
0–57
24.6
9.5
26.3
12.5
ns
0.2
Movie Grandma Rabbit
1–72
32.1
20.7
42.8
19.1
0.02
0.5
10–100
45.4
17.5
54.8
20.0
0.04
0.5
Autism ↓ Controls
Mothers
Movie Puzzle Rabbit
0–56
19.1
11.6
30.3
13.4
<0.01
0.9
0–58
24.0
13.2
32.9
13.8
0.02
0.7
Autism ↓ Controls
Movie Trumpet
0–84
32.5
21.8
44.3
26.1
ns
0.5
0–88
40.0
22.5
46.7
26.5
ns
0.3
Autism ↓ Controls
Movie Teletubbies
0–71
19.3
13.2
28.8
13.5
0.02
0.7
0–72
25.7
12.6
31.5
13.0
ns
0.4
Autism ↓ Controls
Movie Grandma Rabbit
0–69
31.5
21.0
53.5
11.6
<0.001
1.4
3–88
50.3
18.7
61.0
11.0
0.01
0.7
Autism ↓ Controls
Fathers
Movie Puzzle Rabbit
0–53
27.8
15.3
30.5
11.2
ns
0.2
2–56
32.7
14.3
36.1
12.7
ns
0.3
Movie Trumpet
3–69
27.7
20.7
33.0
18.8
ns
0.3
7–71
33.0
20.1
34.5
18.7
ns
0.1
Movie Teletubbies
4–49
22.0
11.4
25.1
11.3
ns
0.3
10–52
27.8
10.6
27.3
10.9
ns
0.05
Movie Grandma Rabbit
6–64
44.2
18.3
48.8
10.6
ns
0.3
26–98
60.9
17.9
56.5
6.7
ns
0.4
Groups compared with one-sided independent samples t-tests. Ns: not significant. Findings printed in bold were significant after correction for multiple testing.
