Table 1 Aggregated statistics on age, facial expressiveness, emotion congruency, and social responsiveness survey (SRS-2) scores for the two ASD clusters
Variable | ASD: cluster 1 (n = 19) | ASD: cluster 2 (n = 8) | δ (95% CI) | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Median | SD | Median | SD | |||
Age (years) | 25.97 | 9.75 | 22.50 | 4.36 | −0.289 (−0.651, 0.18) | 0.203 |
Expressiveness/engagement | 6.61 | 7.56 | 40.08 | 15.29 | 0.93 (0.731, 0.985) | 0 |
Average congruence | 98.80 | 2.53 | 97.24 | 2.59 | −0.434 (−0.736, 0.012) | 0.035 |
SRS-2 (T-scores) | ||||||
Social awareness | 61.00 | 10.42 | 57.50 | 13.73 | −0.158 (−0.593, 0.349) | 0.548 |
Social cognition | 63.00 | 10.51 | 68.00 | 10.51 | 0.388 (−0.121, 0.736) | 0.103 |
Social communication | 69.00 | 11.34 | 64.00 | 13.99 | −0.039 (−0.536, 0.477) | 0.891 |
Social motivation | 71.00 | 11.4 | 64.00 | 15.15 | −0.132 (−0.611, 0.419) | 0.656 |
Restricted interests and repetitive behavior | 73.00 | 12.36 | 67.50 | 16.45 | −0.184 (−0.63, 0.353) | 0.508 |