Characteristics of Children Who Lost the Diagnosis of Autism: A Sample from Istanbul, Turkey

Table 4

Correlations of variables with length of time to optimal outcome.

	Time to recovery
	Pearson correlation coefficient	𝑃 value
Final IQ	−0.491	0.009
Number of weekly special education sessions	0.173	NS
Age at diagnosis	0.179	NS
Use of first words (age)	0.607	0.027
Use of first phrases (age)	0.734	0.006
Initial CARS scores	0.274	NS