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Of the participants, 117 reported having a child with ASD, and 47 reported having a child with another communication-related condition. Mean BDI-II scores were significantly higher among parents of children with ASD than among parents of children with other communication-related conditions (17.65 vs. 9.36; Welch\u2019s t(140.19) = 5.73, p &lt; 0.001, Cohen\u2019s d = 0.80). This association remained significant after adjustment for parent-reported functional-speech status and available parent characteristics (B = 8.27, 95% CI [4.73, 11.80], p &lt; 0.001). Parent-reported functional-speech status was also associated with the distribution of BDI-II symptom-severity categories (exact p = 0.002); however, the continuous-score difference and adjusted association for absence of functional speech were not statistically significant (p = 0.086 and p = 0.080, respectively). These findings suggest that parent-reported ASD status was more consistently associated with depressive-symptom severity than functional-speech status in this exploratory sample. 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