Improved emotion differentiation under reduced acoustic variability of speech in autism

Table 1 Cronbach’s alpha coefficients for each scale of the ASRS and group of participants

Scale	Number of items		ASD—no or few words	ASD—phrases or fluent	TD
Scale	No or few words	Phrases or fluent	ASD—no or few words	ASD—phrases or fluent	TD
SC	16	19	0.90	0.85	0.90
UB	18	24	0.91	0.91	0.82
SR	16	17	0.85	0.86	0.87
TOT	50	60	0.93	0.93	0.92
DSM-5	27	34	0.82	0.92	0.90
PS	7	9	0.93	0.80	0.78
AS	16	6	0.90	0.85	0.91
SER	12	13	0.90	0.82	0.85
AL	N/A	6	N/A	0.77	0.76
ST	5	5	0.74	0.76	0.76
BR	8	8	0.85	0.89	0.88
SS	6	6	0.86	0.82	0.78
AT	11	11	0.88	0.82	0.82

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