fell just short of significancep = 0.09
Mann–Whitney U -test comparisons 1 confirmed that the ASD and PLI groups had significantly poorer quality of friendships than the Typical group (ASD versus Typical: ( U = 0, z = −4.41, p <0.01; PLI versus Typical: U = 18, z = −2.85, p <0.01), while the comparison between the SLI and Typical group fell just short of significance ( U = 90, z = −1.67, p = 0.09).