Facing the challenge of teaching emotions to individuals with low- and high-functioning autism using a new Serious game: a pilot study

Table 1 Participants’ characteristics

Characteristic (N = 33)	Number
Gender	31 male, 2 female
Autism	23	-
Asperger syndrome	4	-
PDD-NOS	6	-
Readers	19	-
Non-readers	14	-
	Mean score (Standard deviation)	Range
Age (years)	11.4 (3.16)	6 to17
WASI	70.5 (27.6)	35 to 129
Age of semantic-syntactic language (years)	4 (4.7)	< 1 to 12
Schooling (hours/week)	15.1 (9.7)	0 to 28
Special care (hours/week)	10.6 (10.1)	0 to 28

PDD-NOS, Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified; WASI, Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence.

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