Research Article
About Face: Evaluating and Managing Tactile Impairment at the Time of Autism Diagnosis
Table 6
Post hoc levels of autism comparisons.
| | Severe autism
| Mild autism
| (d.f.) | value |
| Oral-tactile | | | | | M | 32.49 | 24.02 | 42.72 | <.000 | SD | 5.19 | 6.97 | () | Face-mouth | | | | | M | 11.70 | 9.47 | 11.26 | .001 | SD | 2.51 | 3.63 | () | Hands-feet-head-skin-diaper | | | | | M | 20.79 | 14.55 | 39.05 | <.000 | SD | 4.03 | 5.35 | () | Orientation and attention | | | | | M | 15.47 | 9.94 | 55.24 | <.000 | SD | 2.92 | 4.03 | () | Self-regulation total | | | | | M | 41.84 | 29.24 | 52.05 | <.000 | SD | 7.14 | 9.29 | () | Oral-tactile, orientation-attention, and self-regulation | | | | | M | 89.87 | 63.20 | 91.58 | <.000 | SD | 10.49 | 15.34 | () | Other sensory domains | | | | | M | 11.63 | 9.20 | 7.66 | .007 | SD | 4.59 | 3.81 | () | Constipation | | | | | M | 2.84 | 2.57 | 0.25 | .662 | SD | 2.62 | 2.53 | () | Total scale | | | | | M | 104.26 | 74.98 | 79.05 | <.000 | SD | 13.55 | 17.46 | () | Face-mouth + orientation-attention | | | | | M | 27.16 | 19.41 | 58.86 | <.000 | SD | 4.03 | 5.45 | () |
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Note: M = mean; SD = standard deviation; d.f. = degrees of freedom.
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