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

Note. PECS stands for picture exchange communication system. Part.: participant.