Table 5 Descriptive statistics describing the demographic features of the high vs. low user groups
|  | ‘High’ group | ‘Low’ group | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | Mean | SD | Min | Max | n | Mean | SD | Min | Max | |
Age at visit 1 (months) | 10 | 60.7 | 6.0 | 53.6 | 73.5 | 9 | 60.1 | 8.9 | 46.9 | 72.8 |
Parent SES | 10 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 1 | 3.5 | 9 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 1 | 3.5 |
Autism symptom severity (− 12 months) | 10 | 43.0 | 5.1 | 35 | 49 | 9 | 42.3 | 4.9 | 37.5 | 52.5 |
Non-verbal cognition DQ (− 8 months) | 10 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.13 | 0.56 | 9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.18 | 0.52 |
Receptive language at visit 1 (words) | 10 | 161 | 137.9 | 5 | 337 | 8 | 209 | 136.0 | 37 | 406 |
Expressive language at visit 1 (words) | 10 | 3 | 6.3 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 6.7 | 0 | 18 |
% AAC user | 8 | 60% | Â | Â | Â | 8 | 60% | Â | Â | Â |
Total therapy (h/week) (visit 2) | 10 | 7.0 | 17.5 | 0.0 | 56.6 | 8 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 6.0 |
SLT (h/week) (visit 2) | 10 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.0 |