From: Infants later diagnosed with autism have lower canonical babbling ratios in the first year of life
 | HR-ASD (N = 44) | HR-Neg (N = 141) | LR (N = 82) | P-value |
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Sex | ||||
Female | 6 (13.6%) | 67 (47.5%) | 28 (34.1%) |  < 0.001 |
Male | 38 (86.4%) | 74 (52.5%) | 54 (65.9%) | |
Maternal education | ||||
High School | 2 (4.5%) | 7 (5.0%) | 3 (3.7%) | 0.102 |
College | 30 (68.2%) | 90 (63.8%) | 44 (53.7%) | |
Graduate | 12 (27.3%) | 44 (31.2%) | 35 (42.7%) | |
Race | ||||
Black/African-American | 1 (2.3%) | 5 (3.5%) | 4 (4.9%) | 0.46 |
More Than One Race | 6 (13.6%) | 16 (11.3%) | 9 (11.0%) | |
White | 37 (84.1%) | 117 (83.0%) | 69 (84.1%) | |
Asian | 0 (0%) | 3 (2.1%) | 0 (0%) | |
Ethnicity | ||||
Hispanic | 2 (4.5%) | 9 (6.4%) | 5 (6.1%) | 0.416 |
Not Hispanic | 42 (95.5%) | 130 (92.2%) | 77 (93.9%) | |
Unknown/Not Reported | 0 (0%) | 2 (1.4%) | 0 (0%) | |
24-Month MSEL expressive language T-score | ||||
Mean (SD) | 36.4 (11.3) | 49.1 (11.2) | 52.9 (9.34) |  < 0.001 |
Median [Min, Max] | 36.0 [20.0, 58.0] | 48.0 [25.0, 76.0] | 54.0 [28.0, 73.0] | |
Missing | 1 (2.3%) | 3 (2.1%) | 0 (0%) | |
24-Month MSEL receptive language T-score | ||||
Mean (SD) | 33.3 (16.2) | 52.1 (10.2) | 57.2 (8.11) |  < 0.001 |
Median [Min, Max] | 23.0 [20.0, 68.0] | 52.0 [20.0, 74.0] | 58.0 [30.0, 77.0] | Â |
Missing | 1 (2.3%) | 3 (2.1%) | 0 (0%) | Â |
24-Month language delay | ||||
No language delay | 16 (36.4%) | 121 (85.8%) | 80 (97.6%) |  < 0.001 |
Language delay | 27 (61.4%) | 17 (12.1%) | 2 (2.4%) | |
Unknown | 1 (2.3%) | 3 (2.1%) | 0 (0%) | |
6-Month sample Ns | N = 33 | N = 105 | N = 73 |  |
12-Month sample Ns | N = 39 | N = 129 | N = 71 |  |