Clinical outcomes of interactive, intensive and individual (3i) play therapy for children with ASD: a two-year follow-up study

Table 4 Assessment of autism severity during the study

Evaluation	T0	T1	T2	P-value
CARS	44.5 ± 5.0	37.1 ± 5.6**	33.7 ± 5.1***	1.76 10⁻⁷
ADI-R Interaction	23.1 ± 3.2	14.6 ± 3.8***	12.7 ± 5.0***	1.21 10^− 7
ADI-R Communication	13.0 ± 3.7	10.6 ± 3.1*	8.3 ± 2.8**	4.77 10^− 5
ADI-R Stereotypy	6.4 ± 2.6	5.1 ± 2.5	4.0 ± 2.1*	0.00235

The * indicates the level of the p-values of the post hoc tests between T0 and T1 and T0 and T2 after the Friedman test. Bonferroni adjustments were made due to the multiple analyses *** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05

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