Comparison of Adaptive Behavior Measures for Children with HFASDs

Table 4

Discrepancies between mean IQ and adaptive behavior domain scores and composite scores.

Domain/composite	Standard score (M=100)	Discrepancy
VABS-II
Communication	88.38	15.77*
Socialization	76.12	28.03*
Daily Living Skills	91.44	12.71*
Adaptive Behavior Composite	83.52	20.63*
BASC-2
Adaptive Skills Composite	77.26^†	26.89*
ABAS-II
Conceptual	81.26	22.89*
Social	72.08	32.07*
Practical	77.56	26.59*
General Adaptive Composite	73.64	30.51*

†The composite for the BASC-2 was the converted score used to create the common metric for the cross-measure comparisons (Table 3). Discrepancies were based on the difference between the group’s IQ M = 104.15 and the domain/composite score from the adaptive measures.
∗P < .001.