Characteristics of Children Who Lost the Diagnosis of Autism: A Sample from Istanbul, Turkey

Table 2

Changes in CARS items.

CARS item	Initial score mean	Initial score standard deviation	Final score mean	Final score standard deviation	𝑃 value
(1) Relating to people	2.40	0.37	1.14	0.23	<0.0001
(2) Imitation	2.45	0.46	1.06	0.20	<0.0001
(3) Emotional response	2.19	0.39	1.10	0.20	<0.0001
(4) Body use	2.26	0.54	1.06	0.17	<0.0001
(5) Object use	2.46	0.52	1.29	0.42	<0.0001
(6) Adaptation to change	2.03	0.54	1.27	0.36	<0.0001
(7) Visual response	2.27	0.44	1.14	0.23	<0.0001
(8) Listening response	2.41	0.32	1.18	0.27	<0.0001
(9) Taste, smell, and touch response	1.63	0.48	1.14	0.28	<0.0001
(10) Fear or nervousness	1.49	0.41	1.30	0.39	0.03*
(11) Verbal communication	2.69	0.42	1.25	0.30	<0.0001
(12) Nonverbal communication	2.41	0.36	1.14	0.23	<0.0001
(13) Activity level	1.73	0.59	1.91	0.79	0.13**
(14) Intellectual response	2.00	0.53	1.12	0.21	<0.0001
(15) General impressions	2.41	0.38	1.09	0.19	<0.0001

∗Not significant after Bonferroni correction.
∗∗Not significant.