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The MSEC is complementary to the ATEC in measuring complex language comprehension. The parents of 143 autistic children, from 2 to 22 years of age (mean 6.7 \u00b1 5.1 years), completed the MSEC and the ATEC questionnaires and a clinician assessed their CARS score. The CARS score correlated strongly with all parent reports, the complex language comprehension MSEC (r = 0.60, p &lt; 0.0001), expressive language (r = 0.66, p &lt; 0.0001), sociability (r = 0.58, p &lt; 0.0001), sensory awareness (r = 0.71, p &lt; 0.0001), and health (r = 0.53, p &lt; 0.0001), as well as the total ATEC score (r = 0.75, p &lt; 0.0001). The strongest correlation was between the CARS score and the composite of all five parent-reported scores (total ATEC + MSEC, r = 0.77, p &lt; 0.0001). 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