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This study focuses on whether there are sex differences in language ability in children with ASD and aims to analyze whether such differences may arise from developmental imbalances in the anatomical structures of Broca and Wernicke areas.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The language development quotient (DQ) scores of Gesell Developmental Scale (GDS) and the scores of language communication of Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) were used to judge the language ability, and the FREESURFER software extracted the anatomical structures of Broca and Wernicke areas on 3DT1 sequences. We analyzed the correlation between the anatomical structure of Broca\/Wernicke areas and language abilities assessments.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The study initially included 44 cases of ASD, with 36 males (81.8 %) and 8 females (18.2%), and the age range was 24\u201372 months. Males have better language abilities than females. Specifically, the GDS verbal DQ of males was significantly higher than that of females (56.50 \u00b1 18.02 vs. 29.23 \u00b1 6.67,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt; 0.001). Broca thickness\n                      <jats:italic>-L<\/jats:italic>\n                      was positively correlated with verbal DQ scores in GDS (\n                      <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.382,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.011) and lower than grade 2 and 3 on the CARS verbal communication grade 4 (5.76 \u00b1 0.17 vs. 6.21 \u00b1 0.30 and 6.11 \u00b1 0.35), with statistically significant differences between groups (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt; 0.05).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>There were sex differences in the language abilities of preschoolers with ASD, which may be due to an imbalance development of certain structures in Broca and Wernicke areas, especially Broca area.<\/jats:p>\n       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