Research Article
Abnormal Pressure Pain, Touch Sensitivity, Proprioception, and Manual Dexterity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Table 1
Descriptive characteristics of the children with autism spectrum disorders.
| | Number of children |
| Gender | | Males | 20 | Females | 7 | Age | 6.3 years ± 3.23 | Cognitive impairment | | None | 24 | Mild | 3 | Moderate | 0 | Severe | 0 | Verbal ability | | Fluent communicative speech | 12 | Speech with communicative sentences but frequent echolalia | 7 | A few communicative sentences | 4 | A few words | 4 | Nonverbal expression | 0 |
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