Research Article
Naturalistic Observations of Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Study of Intentional Communicative Acts in the Classroom
Table 1
Frequency counts for both communication prompts and the form of communicative acts for each participant.
| | Part. 1 | Part. 2 | Part. 3 | Part. 4 | Part. 5 | Part. 6 |
| Prompts | | | | | | | Naturalistic (spontaneous) | 15 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 15 | Evoked | 27 | 7 | 17 | 17 | 8 | 16 | Generalized | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | Highlighting | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Verbal | 11 | 4 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 5 | Modelling | 6 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | Physical | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Child’s communication | | | | | | | Evoked | 27 | 7 | 17 | 17 | 8 | 16 | PECS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | Verbal | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Modeling | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | Physical | 21 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 14 | Spontaneous | 15 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 15 | PECS | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | Verbal | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Modeling | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Physical | 11 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
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Note. PECS stands for picture exchange communication system. Part.: participant.
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