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

Table 4

Internal consistencies of domains by group.

Domain	Cronbach’s alpha		Number of items
	Autism total	Typically developing children
Oral-tactile	.708	.791	17
Face-mouth	.625	.592	5
Head-hands-feet-skin-diaper	.607	.569	12
Orientation and attention	.760	.719	7
Self-regulation domains (sleep, appetite/digestion, self-soothing, toileting, and behavior)	.769	.794	23
Total oral-tactile, orientation and attention, and self-regulation	.864	.886	47
Other sensory domains (vision, hearing, and smell)	.694	.740	7
Constipation	.707	.599	5
Total scale	.873	.899	59
Face-mouth + orientation-attention	.764	.793	12