Screening with the Childhood Autism Rating Scale
(CARS; Schopler et al. 1988) indicated that all three boys
were ‘‘mildly-moderately autistic.’’ On the repeated standardized
measures of change, the participants showed little
variation in behaviors from Pre-Baseline to Post-Baseline
to Post-Intervention to Post-Withdrawal.
On the ABC-C, parent-rated behaviors of all three boys ranged from the
60th to the 98th percentile across phases. On the SRS, all
but one T-score of parent-rated behaviors ranged above 60,
indicating mild to severe social impairment.
On the SP-CQ,parent-rated sensory indicators tended to remain stable,
with each participant being rated as ‘‘typical performance’’
during all phases of the study for low endurance/tone,
sensory sensitivity, and sedentary factors. Participants A
and B were also rated as ‘‘typical performance’’ in all
phases for emotionally reactive, and Participant B for poor
registration.
In contrast, Participants A and C were rated as
‘‘definite difference’’ for sensory seeking, and Participant C
for fine motor/perceptual (see Table 3).