Results
Standardized assessments
The scores from the test battery are in Table I. The
table shows that the AS group performed within
normal limits on all the language and cognition tests.
The HFA group were delayed in all aspects of
receptive and expressive language, but within normal
limits for cognition, as expected. Using standard
scores and Pearson’s correlations, the r value for
correlations on GFTA-2 with the other tests were
non-significant. For the HFA group, r value on
GFTA-2 with CELF-3UK was 7.062, (p¼.748);
BPVS-II was .084 (p¼.654); TROG-2 was 7.241
(p¼.191). For the AS group, r value on GFTA-2
with CELF-3UK was .083, (p¼.610); BPVS-II was
.037 (p¼.823); TROG-2 was 7.092 (p¼.571).
The results do not indicate a relationship between
speech and other language skills or between speech
and cognition in the children with ASD.