Using the Virtual Reality-Cognitive Rehabilitation Approach to Improve Contextual Processing in Children with Autism

Table 1

Participant demographic information.

	Child 1	Child 2	Child 3	Child 4
Gender	Boy	Girl	Boy	Boy
Age	6 years, 7 months	8 years, 11 months	6 years, 1 month	7 years, 11 months
Grade	1	4	1	2
Diagnosis	Autism	Autism	Autism	PDD-NOS
CARS score	32.5	32.5	30	33
Nonverbal IQ	98	111	139	119
Siblings	Brother (9 years, 5 months)	Sister (6 years, 1 month)	None	Sister (9 years, 11 months)
Mother’s education level	Bachelor degree	Doctoral degree	Bachelor degree	Bachelor degree
Father’s education level	Postgraduate degree	Bachelor degree	Bachelor degree	Bachelor degree
Primary language spoken at home	English	Mandarin Chinese	Mandarin Chinese	English
Extracurricular activities	Weekly 1 : 1 tutoring for academic subjects	Weekly swimming class, cooking class, and therapeutic horseback riding	Weekly social skills group for children with autism	None
Baseline length	3 sessions	4 sessions	5 sessions	6 sessions

Abbreviations: CARS: Childhood Autism Rating Scale; [25], ASD: Autism Spectrum Disorder; PDD-NOS: Pervasive Developmental Disorder, not otherwise specified. Note: nonverbal IQ scores are derived from the Brief-IQ screener from the Leiter International Performance Scale [26].