The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology

Table 1 The relation between the effect of gender on the presence of delayed language development and autism spectrum disorder

From: Co-occurrence of delayed language development and autism spectrum disorder in children with metabolic disorders

		Sex		Test of sig
		Male	Female	Test of sig
		N (%)	N (%)	p-value	Sig
Language development	NLD	10 (13.89%)	4 (14.29%)	1^(F)	NS
Language development	DLD	62 (86.11%)	24 (85.71%)	1^(F)	NS
Autism spectrum disorder	No	60 (83.33%)	24 (85.71%)	1^(F)	NS
Autism spectrum disorder	Yes	12 (16.67%)	4 (14.29%)	1^(F)	NS

NLD normal language development. F Fisher exact test. NS non-significant

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